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I'm curious--are there any employees who write PB as a job? NOT self-employed, and not consultants who get to pick their own language, but employees...

I know the new guy (SniffTheGlove) is one, and Freak might count...anyone else?

Just curious...are we all hobbyists and/or self employed?

The nearest you would get to writing basic at work would be Visual Basic but that being phased out and being replaced with C#. Maybe LotusScript in Lotus Notes would be next but who the hell wants to write that crap! lol.

Blood wrote:... Visual Basic but that being phased out and being replaced with C#....

Phased out?!?!? VB was never thought of as a language to be used at work...only for hobbyists. They've just rebranded it with curly braces to make it acceptable in the workplace.

Tenaja wrote:VB was never thought of as a language to be used at work...only for hobbyists.

I used VB 5.0 and 6.0 at work for some years, and wrote software that had a good diffusion in the pharmaceutical industry (to optimize the production lines). I know many other people who developed on it at work. Then on VB.Net too.

The language itself was not bad (old VB), but the actual code generated was quite crappy, bloated, and slow. It was difficult to get acceptable performance from it. It also had some crude objects implementation.

To answer you question, I use PB only for my hobby, because I like it and it's light, quick, fast to use.

I'm using PB for some tasks at work (I'm employee). The latest was when I had to watermark a lot of high resolution pictures and I couldn't find the tool to do it the way I wanted.

I run my own business and use PB a lot. I also have employees (plural) that use a mix of languages; php, c++ and PB.

Why do you think VB is being phased out? VB.NET offers the same exact functionality regarding the .NET
environment, so there is no point in letting it phase out. Actually, the whole point of .NET is to have
many different languages that are 100% compatible. And that's the case with C# and VB.NET and also all
those other "official" .NET languages such as J#, F#, C++.NET etc.

As an employee, I'm usually using PB at work. I've got 6 projects which need PB, and the biggest one helps me to save a lot of time. It allows me to generate in several SQL scripts depending of various contraints, trading calendars for all trading stock exchange.

I have two employees that are using PB at work. We do our SDK (software development kit) and client software using PureBasic for both Windows and Linux.

Kukulkan

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Tenaja wrote:

Blood wrote:... Visual Basic but that being phased out and being replaced with C#....

Phased out?!?!? VB was never thought of as a language to be used at work...only for hobbyists. They've just rebranded it with curly braces to make it acceptable in the workplace.

utopiomania wrote:

Any PB programmers who are EMPLOYEES?

Two or three maybe. I wondered about this myself, ...?

Whoa
Tell that to the 10's of millions of Excel and Word users that crafted automation scripts using VBA.
While it is true that VB is in decline, it did register users in the millions.
Kind of risky to say none of them were employees.

No kidding, VB was one of the most common languages to use in a Business outside of mainframe languages. At least in the US.

utopiomania wrote:
Any PB programmers who are EMPLOYEES?

Two or three maybe. I wondered about this myself, ...?


Whoa

skywalk, the original thread was about PB.. Not VB, or VBA.

Sorry utopiomania, my mistake. The thread meandered & confused me a bit.
I would just add that many of the VB6 devotees who passed on .NET may have come here.

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