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Hit me, hit me hard...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:57 pm
by techjunkie
with a blue bamboo stick (on my pink *ss), for sometimes I feel ashamed to admit that my application is written in PureBasic. If someone asks, I sometimes say...
"Ehhhh, ummm... it's compiled with fasm."
(people tend to laugh or at least shake their head when you let the word "basic" slip through your lips)
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:06 pm
by JCV
My teachers always ask me if what language I use. I told them its PureBasic.
I showed some of my programs and they are amazed.
Because for many years they taught us visual basic and c/c++ only.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:28 pm
by techjunkie
JCV wrote:I showed some of my programs and they are amazed.
Yeah, I'll guess programmers at my company are "a bit conservative". If you don't program in anything that ends in ".NET" it's worthless.
I know and I suppose everyone in this forum knows, this is stupid thinking!
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:36 pm
by JCV
Its so true on companies that I have encountered. They always ask if I know (asp/vb/c#) .Net.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:41 pm
by Pantcho!!
I just say its a BASIC language syntax that is compiled with asm compiler.
and it can do anything.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:39 pm
by Derek
Yeah, I always say it's compiled so it's basically ASM.
Usually confuses the people that I deal with.
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:24 pm
by Tipperton
I just tell them its hand optimized assemler, which it is..... Thanks Fred!
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:58 am
by techjunkie
Hmmmm... Maybe we can say it's Pure++ or PB++ or maybe Pure.NOT?
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:00 am
by PB
I just say closed-source C, so they can't see the source.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:18 am
by Tipperton
Oh just tell them its in PB.NET and let them have fun trying to find it!
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:40 am
by Brice Manuel
Yeah, I'll guess programmers at my company are "a bit conservative". If you don't program in anything that ends in ".NET" it's worthless.
Sounds like the mentality when I worked at Martin (now Lockheed Martin) and a couple of other places I could name.
I just tell them its hand optimized assemler, which it is.....
indeed
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:47 am
by djes
You know, it's like maths, physics, or engineering. How to keep your advantages, impress people, create a caste : let the things be obfuscated. Simpliest example with obscure greek symbols, they say it's by commodity ; but only imposed years of practice are making them clear and useful. I'm sure that young people, trained with simpliest symbols could learn a lot more efficiently and could imagine really new stuff, faster. But it's not going to happen soon, because you can't break the rules so easily.
It's not that C is really more efficient. But when you're saying you're coding in C, you say that you have a practice, learned for years in (generally) high schools. That makes the difference.