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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:42 pm
by thanos
Hello Kale,
i just bought your book (i am a newcomer in PureBasic) and i have to congratulate you about the quality and the completeness of the book.
It is professional, well organized and it has good "geometry" in its contents.
Congratulation again.
Regards.

Thanos

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:49 pm
by Kale
thanos wrote:Hello Kale,
i just bought your book (i am a newcomer in PureBasic) and i have to congratulate you about the quality and the completeness of the book.
It is professional, well organized and it has good "geometry" in its contents.
Congratulation again.
Regards.

Thanos
Ta. :)

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:05 pm
by le_magn
Hi Kale, congratulation for your Book, i have buy it yesterday(ebook version), good work :)

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:45 pm
by Lazarus404
Hey Kale,

I'd just like to say, for all those thinking about buying your book, that I'm in no way a beginner to programming, or the PureBasic language, yet your book has proven very useful indeed as reference. If I forget something, I find myself diving into your book rather than looking it up in the "not quite so helpful" help docs ;)

Good work!

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:50 pm
by Tipperton
Yeah, it's a good book, I bought the paperback but now wish I had waited to get the eBook version.

Not going to buy it twice, that would be silly.

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:20 am
by byo
Lazarus404 wrote:the "not quite so helpful" help docs ;)
Definitely not true...

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:24 pm
by oldBear
posts missing? or maybe I was just having a bad dream.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:27 pm
by blueznl
No, I think you're right... lemme search a little, looks indeed there is stuff missing, perhaps a backup was restored?

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:28 pm
by srod
Aye I think the help docs are great. Concise, to the point and very clear.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:29 pm
by oldBear
blueznl wrote:No, I think you're right... lemme search a little, looks indeed there is stuff missing, perhaps a backup was restored?
perhaps a little more 'selective' than a restored backup :)

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:31 pm
by blueznl
Duh!

Yep. Some posts are missing, for example Coder-Gurl or whatever was her / his / its name is now listed with only 1 post, instead of 4.

Fred, did you delete some flammatory stuff, or was there a restore? (Euh, do I care? Not really :-))

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:50 pm
by Coder-Gurl
wow a forum where u cant have an opinion, are we all supposed to like Kales book?

No wonder this is a dying language wen u have admins that don't give new users a chance.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:18 pm
by srod
A dying language! :) I think not! I missed the posts which have been removed, but I assume they broke the forum rules which have been made very clear now.

The mods cannot really win. When posts essentially went unmoderated through a spirit of openness and co-operation etc. things got a little out of hand and the mods took a lot of criticism for not stepping in sooner. Now that the forum rules have been reinforced and the mods take steps to remove certain posts which clearly break those aforementioned rules, they get criticised again... no win!

I for one prefer things the way they are now with far less flame wars about. :)

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:20 pm
by oldBear
I seriously doubt the admins really care about someone's opinion of Kale's book (or much else for that matter).They may be attempting to avoid a flame war. (which appeared to be in the making).

The admins in this forum are about as lenient toward the posters as any I've seen anywhere. They sometimes try to avoid what looks to be a war in the making. Probably a good idea overall.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:22 pm
by Little John
Coder-Gurl wrote:No wonder this is a dying language wen u have admins that don't give new users a chance.
Up to now, I've read from you nothing else but stupid polemics. So what has this got to do with "don't give new users a chance"??

Hint:
The saying wrote:It's not what you say, but how you say it.
Regards, Little John