A discussion was started a bit ago about why Purebasic doesn't suck. If you read my post on there you know I not only think PB doesn't suck but I think it's awesome.
That said, there is an improvement that I think could be relatively easily made over time and not really impact much of anything, certainly not concerning our programming with it or Fred and the PB team's coding of it.
Question: How many ways can you list in which PB is better than most Basic dialects out there to include the mother of all Basics, Visual Basic?
Quite a few right? And not just small things, pretty fricking major things right?
So why carry around the misleading sub title Basic?
I was thinking about this and I thought sure, but what do you name it?
Well, what about simply de-emphasizing the "basic" and emphasizing the "Pure" in the name. Call it "Pure". To me that's a pretty good fit. It's a no-nonsense language that takes the best out there, not the flashy useless crap, but the real meaningful features and puts them in.
Distilled, the essence of programming....Pure
It's got a built in marketing advantage, when ever someone talks about it they'd say "...hey have you looked at the Pure programming language?" Bam! Got their attention!
P.S. There does not seem to be a programming language with that name as far as I've been able to tell on the net...
What do you think?
