Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2002 6:30 am
Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by NJBruce.
Hello to all!
I am a newly registered PureBasic user and am curious to know if Fred posts interim bugfixes between major updates to PureBasic, and how I can obtain them. Specifically, I need the fix for using negative numbers in DATA statements, which Fred said he added.
Since version 2.8 is about to be released, I can wait the few days for it to be posted. And since I am only a novice user and am not writing "mission-critical code," please don't come down too hard on me for not being more patient. I just need to be informed on how this stuff is dealt with.
Thanks, and I'd just like to say that I haven't had this much fun playing around with Basic since MS decided that QBasic wasn't worth its time and let it die. And Visual Basic was just too overly complicated for what I wanted to do. Other Basics didn't have the graphics commands I wanted to toy with, but PureBasic really fills the bill, allowing me to experiment with the easy stuff and letting me grow into much more powerful programming if I want to. Great job, Fred, and thanks for thinking of those of us who might just want to play! After all, some of the world's greatest inventions came from tinkerers.
--Bruce Schoenberger
Hello to all!
I am a newly registered PureBasic user and am curious to know if Fred posts interim bugfixes between major updates to PureBasic, and how I can obtain them. Specifically, I need the fix for using negative numbers in DATA statements, which Fred said he added.
Since version 2.8 is about to be released, I can wait the few days for it to be posted. And since I am only a novice user and am not writing "mission-critical code," please don't come down too hard on me for not being more patient. I just need to be informed on how this stuff is dealt with.
Thanks, and I'd just like to say that I haven't had this much fun playing around with Basic since MS decided that QBasic wasn't worth its time and let it die. And Visual Basic was just too overly complicated for what I wanted to do. Other Basics didn't have the graphics commands I wanted to toy with, but PureBasic really fills the bill, allowing me to experiment with the easy stuff and letting me grow into much more powerful programming if I want to. Great job, Fred, and thanks for thinking of those of us who might just want to play! After all, some of the world's greatest inventions came from tinkerers.
--Bruce Schoenberger
