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Hi all,

My friend asked me that both basic are similar.
Why purebasic is preferable?

Thanks in advance

Do you have a link to this fastbasic so that comparisons can be made, I for one haven't used it, don't need to as PureBasic is great, gets updated regularly and has a great forum with some brilliant and helpful coders on it.

sampb wrote:Hi all,

My friend asked me that both basic are similar.
Why purebasic is preferable?

Thanks in advance

PureBasic is preferable because that make me rich $$$ :p

Berikco wrote:

sampb wrote:Hi all,

My friend asked me that both basic are similar.
Why purebasic is preferable?

Thanks in advance

PureBasic is preferable because that make me rich $$$ :p

Priceless

no two basic dialects are really similar. there will be always some differences.

I don't know "fastbasic"...

Do you mean FreeBasic?

--blueb

Yeah, it is freebasic.

@Derek:

Do you have a link to this fastbasic so that comparisons can be made, I for one haven't used it, don't need to as PureBasic is great, gets updated regularly and has a great forum with some brilliant and helpful coders on it.

Freebasic also has regular update.

@Berikco:

PureBasic is preferable because that make me rich $$$ :p

I haven't make any money with purebasic.

Any other advantages of using purebasic over freebasic?

I like the way FB handles pointers, like C, also Functions (Procedures) can return UTD's (Structures) plus it has operator and function overloading, very handy.

So jack, you like (FB) freebasic more?

How about other users?

(How could I persuade my friend to use purebasic?)

Dude, simply test it. No comparison chart or user opinon will ever be as precise as actually testing the language yourself. It's pointless to ask for pro or contra arguments for a specfic BASIC dialect on forum aimed at a completely different language. PB users will say that PB is better and FB users will say FB is better.

The only thing I don't like is the syntax of freebasic, other than that, it seems to be a great language, probably better than PB in terms of features and functionality.

Heathen wrote:The only thing I don't like is the syntax of freebasic, other than that, it seems to be a great language, probably better than PB in terms of features and functionality.

Traitor.

Seriously though, it doesn't look that bad features wise, there are a few things that PB could do with that are already implemented in FB.

But I think I'll stick with PB.

Heathen wrote:The only thing I don't like is the syntax of freebasic, other than that, it seems to be a great language, probably better than PB in terms of features and functionality.

Same, I like the PHP escaping way and the commenting. If only PureBasic had this

ie

PrintN(""Hello"")

Would print "Hello" with those quotation marks.
Instead of having to go Chr() whatever the number it is for that. If PureBasic had the same functions as php that would be cool.

Like instead of MD5(*Buffer, Len) we have MD5($String)
explode(), implode()

etc. But we still love purebasic.

wonder if you could do that with a macro...