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Of course its ok to ask
How would you ever be able to feel secure on a selection if you don't hear the users comments first?

But; do spend a little time with the demo. Snap a quick view of the examples and around this forum. And feel free to ask about anything!

Well, I have been playing with the demo version and the example code. I was able to create a small program in about an hour after looking over the demos. The syntax seems pretty straightforward and easy to understand.

It was well thought out and easy to follow. Good job! You folks here on the forum have been very helpful and I can only hope that this will continue to be that way for many years to come.

I have just about made my mind up to get a copy.

Noble Bell wrote:No offense taken. But, in doing those heavy-duty applications and consulting it has taught me to spend my hard-earned money wisely too.

If you would notice in my original post I stated that I use VB.Net as well.

Of course, but VB.net far from means you're experienced or any good at coding

Hi Noble Bell,

Welcome to the forums.

If you buy it and don't like it, Fred will be so remorseful he will let you get all the updates free!

OTOH, if you do like it, he'll be so pleased he'll give you all the updates for nothing!

If you end up just lukewarm, then you'll get all the updates for free because Fred is confused (PureBasic users and PureBasic have either a love or hate relationship).

You'll end up with, after a once-only outlay (yes, that's right, you pay just once) for a linux/MacOS/Windows development system that writes small tight exe's and is easy to use.

Divide the outlay by your programming life expectancy (remaining years as coder) and work out the annual cost. Compare against the cost of, say, one pizza a month.


You can use Pure for anything feasible (except possibly having it wrap itself in a dll and selling it as another coding language - or part-thereof) with no royalty payments, no upgrade fees, no hidden costs or agendas.


You get a free Visual Designer! You get access to a heap of user open source code. You get excellent and free user libraries and tools. You get a choice of two excellent IDEs, the official one and the open-source one.

Not only that, but you'll get to hang around with all the cool people on this forum. Or, if that is a turn-off, you can elect to pass on that one.


I'll let others give you the boring technical benefits.


BTW, if you have conquered the noisy, crowded, complex interface that is the VB.NET ide you qualify as a user of PureBasic.

Nice reply =)

I can assure you that in the past 25 years of my coding life I have written several commercial and industrial applications and done several consulting jobs for the government and private sector. Not to toot my own horn, but, I want to develop shareware as a stress relief from all the other stuff that I have to do. I like shareware, I think that it is a good concept and one actually in most cases gets a better product and better support from shareware author's because they are under no pressure or time constraints that big-business deals out.

PureBasic seems to be the best route for a nice and easy way for me to grow my shareware business and enjoy the finer things of coding and not have to worry about all the other stresses.

Point taken, dracflamloc, using a certain language or certain IDE does not make one a proficient programmer. IMHO, languages and IDE's today have really taken the power away from a programmer and placed it into self-generating code. You know, click on this and connect this and bam! You have a complete application.

I can see why because industry is driving us coders to deliver on a much faster scale than we use to and that is what is forcing language developer's and IDE developer's to create the things that they create.


It kinda makes one lazy, don't you think?

Yea. Makes me sad actually. Some so-called "coders" are just the VB.NET drag n drop application types and they give people who truly understand the working of a computer a bad vibe and lower wages =\

That is partially why I am not living in a house like Bill Gates has right now.

But anyway, back to the original thread, I have decided that I am going to give PB a shot. It looks as though it will fit the bill quite nicely.

I will be returning to the forums. You folks on here are a joy to talk to and are very knowledgable.

Thanks again and hope to talk to all of you soon.

nb