Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:21 pm
Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Naitfreak.
Aghit!
I just started about 1 month ago messing around with PB and I am still impressed. I watched it grow long before I actually started using it and must say I've rarely seen a language relying on the BASIC syntax wich is that powerfull, flexible and simply fast as hell. I don't even discovered the half of PB's command sets yet and I think the possiblities of applications you can write with PB seem to be endless.
Well, while just getting the hang of it I have browsed the forums a lot lately. And I see lot's of posts wich feature the same old cheesy commercial debate like on most other boards. You know like:
"Can I make a commercial game/app with PB?"
Just lemme say this, in 99% of the cases the answer is "YES!!" and you should never forget the software will never be better than the skills of it's creator. As I also own DarkBASIC and BlitzBasic(2D/3D) I can tell you that this debate is as old as mankind, pointless and in the end will lead to nowhere. Since I started using DarkBASIC this question follows me to every board I come to and on all boards it's the same result: A flaming war! Some less aggressive, others more.
However, I also see Fred sometimes answering to these posts and sorta defeding hiself. Like explaing why this or that isn't finished, implemented or still not bugfree. I can only say that he shouldn't answer these posts at all as he's just human and does a very great job since the first release of PB. I mean the updates are apearing almost monthly with tons of new features and bugfixes. So I really appreciate the great support and all the ambitious work he's putting into PB.
One more thing tho'! To all the people that are moaning about the newly introduced ORGE 3D support and say it's useless at the moment...
Just relax, sit back and watch Fred at improving the 3D support! Apart from the fact (IMHO) that you even now can some wounderfull stuff with the 3D libary just be not so unpatient. I bet Fred will put a lot more effort into it (without losing focus) and will make the 3D support even more powerfull.
Lata~
Aghit!
I just started about 1 month ago messing around with PB and I am still impressed. I watched it grow long before I actually started using it and must say I've rarely seen a language relying on the BASIC syntax wich is that powerfull, flexible and simply fast as hell. I don't even discovered the half of PB's command sets yet and I think the possiblities of applications you can write with PB seem to be endless.
Well, while just getting the hang of it I have browsed the forums a lot lately. And I see lot's of posts wich feature the same old cheesy commercial debate like on most other boards. You know like:
"Can I make a commercial game/app with PB?"
Just lemme say this, in 99% of the cases the answer is "YES!!" and you should never forget the software will never be better than the skills of it's creator. As I also own DarkBASIC and BlitzBasic(2D/3D) I can tell you that this debate is as old as mankind, pointless and in the end will lead to nowhere. Since I started using DarkBASIC this question follows me to every board I come to and on all boards it's the same result: A flaming war! Some less aggressive, others more.
However, I also see Fred sometimes answering to these posts and sorta defeding hiself. Like explaing why this or that isn't finished, implemented or still not bugfree. I can only say that he shouldn't answer these posts at all as he's just human and does a very great job since the first release of PB. I mean the updates are apearing almost monthly with tons of new features and bugfixes. So I really appreciate the great support and all the ambitious work he's putting into PB.
One more thing tho'! To all the people that are moaning about the newly introduced ORGE 3D support and say it's useless at the moment...
Just relax, sit back and watch Fred at improving the 3D support! Apart from the fact (IMHO) that you even now can some wounderfull stuff with the 3D libary just be not so unpatient. I bet Fred will put a lot more effort into it (without losing focus) and will make the 3D support even more powerfull.
Lata~
