I've recently discovered PB and am just getting acquainted with it. I've been using a language called Euphoria for years, it's a nice language but somewhat "bitty" in that there isn't a standard GUI library or IDE and it's lacking in polish in a few areas, plus it's interpreted (although very fast), so if you want to create a standalone exe, the overhead is now quite large in the latest version ('hello world' is 3Mb
). My preferred OS is Linux, although I also create Windows programs, so I like the cross-platform capability of PB.I like the fact that it's both a high and low-level language; you've got the best of both worlds. I have an interest in electronics and am planning to write a program which interfaces with PIC microcontrollers, so PB's close-to-the-metal features will come in handy there.
I'd like to say thanks to Kale for writing his excellent book and making it available for free, I'm about half way through it and it's a joy to read. Although the book is now quite old, all of the code runs fine (with the exception of that which uses 'CountList', which has been deprecated in favour of 'ListSize').
