Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by theogott.
> Others sounds like Powerbasic ?
I like Powerbasic, too and use it.
It has very clear help for each command, its stabele, fast
and and longstrings (>2 000 000 000) that make things easier for "BASIC-People".
However, the official Visual-Designer from Powerbasic isn't the big deal.
Besides, the official Visual Designer from Powerbasic its expensive (has (my opinion) NO good manual just as the Purebasic manuals
).
A thing that is common to Powerbasic & Purebasic is that the Forum of both is very active & helpful.
I can encourage everyone if you do not find Code in this Forum, look in the Powerbasic-Forum,
I often find useful things there its several years old and much bigger then the relatively
new Purebasic-Forum.
The biggest diffrence between Power- and Purebasic is shurely the "updates-delays".
A new release for Powerbasic seems to take years.
No comparison to PB where Fred makes NEW, surprising good features every month.
And compared with Powerbasic, you do not need to buy a new Product with Purebasic, thats GREAT
and will help to increase the Purebasic Community.
As example, I guess the last Powerbasic-update before 7.0 was at least 3-4 years before.
However I guess we should not see other basic-product as a concurrent,
but as a chance to get good ideas and helpful informations from.
If I look at the features from Powerbasic, I guess they could learn a lot from Fred's Purebasic.
The unique Features in Purebasic are numerous ... MD5, Packing, Graphics ... and the fact that it can
leave away unused code. the intelligent library handling.
However, on the Powerbasic-side if I look at very simple things like the manuals (with examples for each command !) or the "longstrings", then Powerbasic has advantages that makes it more compatible with
traditional basic programms, and is in my opinion easier to learn.
If you need to know how a Command works, you can see a really clear and easy to understand
example for every command. Then the included assembler is really nicely documented as well
and makes Error-Messages which really make sense.
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