Pure "Basic" holding back potential customers?

[rsts]

Don't change the name...change the spelling.

From PureBasic

To PurebasiC

How does that change the spelling? Capitalization maybe, but spelling?

cheers

[Foz]

From PB to PC.

I dislike being Politically Correct.

[Kaeru Gaman]

You have some artistic talent.

thank you.

[Kuron]

That is a rare trait for programmers

[skywalk]

@rsts...
You got me...but is this a programmer's forum?

Code: Select all

If Asc("C") = Asc("c")
  Debug "hooray for rsts"
Else
  Debug "cheers"
EndIf

I really like the suggested C dump of PureBasiC code.

[rsts]

@rsts...
You got me...but is this a programmer's forum?

Code: Select all

If Asc("C") = Asc("c")
  Debug "hooray for rsts"
Else
  Debug "cheers"
EndIf

I really like the suggested C dump of PureBasiC code.

-Steve

As I said - spelling no, capitalization yes

Code: Select all

If ucase("PureBasic")  = Ucase("PurebasiC") and lcase("PureBasic")  = lcase("PurebasiC") 
  Debug "hooray for rsts"
Else
  Debug "cheers"
EndIf

cheers

[Rook Zimbabwe]

even I think this is just far too silly!

[jamba]

you guys are silly...

I like Basic just fine. C most certainly has it's place, and I still use it sometimes, but I MUCH prefer Basic.

While being new to PureBasic, I am finding I would rather use it than the other basics I have messed around with (VB6 which I used predominantly in the past, VB.NET , Mono and Gambas, as they are similar also).

PureBasic is faster, and I just really like the layout and how everything works. Not to mention the community here is top shelf

any Basic dialect carries a kind of stigmata, but that's just how it goes. I don't feel bad about it!
(I do feel bad for anyone who uses C !)

[Seymour Clufley]

You should google "stigmata".

[Kaeru Gaman]

it's ok, he just should use the singular "stigma" if he doesn't mean the clerical term...

[Thorium]

I do feel bad for anyone who uses C !

Finaly someone feels bad about me. I must use C on iPhone and i hate it, i realy do. It's ugly and bloated.
All those brackets and semicolon's. Its if they are to lazy to write a good parser. It's just annoying and would be not necessary as you can see in no basic you have to deal with that much brackets. And never forget one or you get tons of error messages because it's corrupting all the following commands. XCode isn't smart enough to just show you the first syntax error that causes the problem.

Realy the more i use it, the more i hate it and the more i feel that the devs of C and XCode are just lazy b...

Just call a Basic... Basic.

[milan1612]

@Thorium
C may have some drawbacks like allowing you to shoot yourself in the foot way
too easy or its tedious string handling - but if C has one positive aspect
(aside from being portable to whatever architecture out there), then that
it's not bloated

Besides, one gets used to all the brackets and semicolons pretty fast...

[the.weavster]

Finaly someone feels bad about me. I must use C on iPhone and i hate it, i realy do.

I don't know if it's any help to you but you can program the iPhone with Lua: http://developer.anscamobile.com/ (and no it doesn't need to be jailbroken).

I don't know how good or complete it is I just found it by accident when researching Lua but it claims to have some apps in the app store already.

[Thorium]

then that
it's not bloated

I mean the source code gets bloated not the resulting executable. For example every API introduces it's own datatypes which are just the basic c datatypes with other names. That does not make any sense to me and just makes the source look more complicated than it is. For example on OpenGL you use "GLFloat" for floats but it's just the same as "float" you can just write "float" instead of "GLFloat". Maybe that should improve readability but it just don't. And there are tons of such things.

[StPaul]

I think yes and no. Granted some do see "Basic" as inherently slow etc... language.

But, other people see Basic as a language with the readability that appeals to many folks who program ocassionally. I knew I was looking for some form of basic and that is how I found PB. But I was amazed when learned more about it.

It would seem the real issue is to create greater awareness, and not just in the game programming world. This product is neat. And the user community is very positive.