10 Year PB Anniversary Plus Bithday
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:58 am
Today (the 4th) is my 10 year anniversary with PB. I got it as a present for Christmas 2003, and made my first post here the 4th of January 2004. Tomorrow, the 5th of January is my birthday.
Over the past ten years PureBasic has grown, changed and continued to support new standards, as well as more platforms. Competing products have either died with the death of their author, the incarceration of their author, or because the author has abandoned his products to go play in the jungle with monkeys. PureBasic is still here, chugging along like The Little Engine That Could. Fred has a big announcement coming. My guess is ARM support. No matter what the announcement is, I know PureBasic will keep changing with the times and adapting to new standards. With the LTS, Fred & Freak have made a commitment to stability (which I love). PureBasic may have won the race simply by being the "last man standing", but it is the tenacity of Fred and Freak that have made PureBasic what it is today. What PureBasic is today, is simply the best, and most advanced, BASIC currently available. With PureBasic, there is no bloat, EXEs are small and fast. Besides being cross-platform, PureBasic has supported 64-bit for some time, while it always remained a pipe-dream for the competition (when there was competition).
So, today, I want to wish me and PB a Happy Ten Year Anniversary. I am proud of PB and what it has accomplished these past ten years I have known it and I look forward to the next ten years of our relationship. I also want to say Thank You to Fred and Freak for making the past ten years so wonderful and providing PureBasic and continuing to push it to new extremes. Also, a big thank you to the community who has always been extremely helpful.
The 5th of January (tomorrow) is my Birthday. I got my first taste of programming in the mid 70s on a Xerox Alto. I also played my first games on a computer (not a game console) in the mid 70s, on that same Alto. A multi-player Trek game and a multi-player 3D game. In 1979, I started programming on an Apple II, and this has been a passion that has continued and a passion that I tried to spread to others when I used to teach BASIC programming to kids in an after-school program. Things have really changed a lot since I started programming, but for the past ten years, the one constant that has been dependable is PureBasic. PureBasic has made adapting to (and supporting) new changes in APIs and operating systems as painless as possible.
Over the past ten years PureBasic has grown, changed and continued to support new standards, as well as more platforms. Competing products have either died with the death of their author, the incarceration of their author, or because the author has abandoned his products to go play in the jungle with monkeys. PureBasic is still here, chugging along like The Little Engine That Could. Fred has a big announcement coming. My guess is ARM support. No matter what the announcement is, I know PureBasic will keep changing with the times and adapting to new standards. With the LTS, Fred & Freak have made a commitment to stability (which I love). PureBasic may have won the race simply by being the "last man standing", but it is the tenacity of Fred and Freak that have made PureBasic what it is today. What PureBasic is today, is simply the best, and most advanced, BASIC currently available. With PureBasic, there is no bloat, EXEs are small and fast. Besides being cross-platform, PureBasic has supported 64-bit for some time, while it always remained a pipe-dream for the competition (when there was competition).
So, today, I want to wish me and PB a Happy Ten Year Anniversary. I am proud of PB and what it has accomplished these past ten years I have known it and I look forward to the next ten years of our relationship. I also want to say Thank You to Fred and Freak for making the past ten years so wonderful and providing PureBasic and continuing to push it to new extremes. Also, a big thank you to the community who has always been extremely helpful.
The 5th of January (tomorrow) is my Birthday. I got my first taste of programming in the mid 70s on a Xerox Alto. I also played my first games on a computer (not a game console) in the mid 70s, on that same Alto. A multi-player Trek game and a multi-player 3D game. In 1979, I started programming on an Apple II, and this has been a passion that has continued and a passion that I tried to spread to others when I used to teach BASIC programming to kids in an after-school program. Things have really changed a lot since I started programming, but for the past ten years, the one constant that has been dependable is PureBasic. PureBasic has made adapting to (and supporting) new changes in APIs and operating systems as painless as possible.
