heheheheh..... powerbasic forum cracks me up

[Antoni Gual]

Code:

System halted: Please insert the diskette with QB runtime in drive B:

:rotfl:

[Z!re]

What!?

You dont have it in your system dir!?


Silly j000!!11

[dilettante]

VB is for GUI applications, PB is for non-gfx applications, FB, is for Games/GFX intense stuff

I use VB for lots of non-GUI development: command-line utilities, DLLs, NT services, mid-tier logic (applications with a GUI VB6 front end and a middle-tier running under a Telnet/SSH server), CGI programs. Why the heck would I go use something like PB in the first place?

FB I can see some reason for, but 90% of my reasons there are hopes of portability that VB will never offer. But I freely admit I have no current interest in gaming and graphics (not much interest out there in graphical front-end MUDs/MOOs anymore, everything's twitch today), so I won't comment on that topic.

But VB gives me quick results, and besides that a rich library of components as as well raw source out there in the world (free and $$) I can reuse. I also don't have to worry that nobody else can maintain the stuff I leave behind.

[Z!re]

Ofcourse you can use VB for anything you want... just like you can use any languag for anything you want..

[dilettante]

Ofcourse you can use VB for anything you want... just like you can use any languag for anything you want..

Well almost... it isn't much of a companion on a Saturday night. :wink:

[Z!re]

:lol:

Well, ok...


That reminds me.. my dad once said after seeing a modded computer case... "But can it make coffe?"
He deems everything worthless unless it's somehow involved in making coffe

[alanjay18]

We think for tthe price to buy PowerBASIC for the system manual alone, let alone the compiler,is not bad?

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[Ninkazu]

A wild necromancer has appeared!

[bush2]

You don't like VB6, but it doesn't mean that it is bad. At all.