I have been working on an astronomy program and was having trouble with one of my calculations. I started emailing various people such as physicists, math profs etc. Upon seeing my source code example, I always got the same "tongue lashing" why I am using "good for nothing" BASIC instead of C.
I tried to example to explain that PowerBasic is not your average BASIC and went into its many merits. Again I got similar responses back, if I am knowledgeable in the Win API then why not move to C. Other quotes "There's a greater future and job market in C." "What happens if PowerBasic ceases to exist?". "How will you port to LINUX? C is more portable" etc. etc...
Their comments continue to haunt me. I've been a long time BASIC user back to the first version of TurboBasic. Is it inevitable that I move to C? (or can we just add a ";" to the of lines of code and call it PowerC???)
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I tried to example to explain that PowerBasic is not your average BASIC and went into its many merits. Again I got similar responses back, if I am knowledgeable in the Win API then why not move to C. Other quotes "There's a greater future and job market in C." "What happens if PowerBasic ceases to exist?". "How will you port to LINUX? C is more portable" etc. etc...
Their comments continue to haunt me. I've been a long time BASIC user back to the first version of TurboBasic. Is it inevitable that I move to C? (or can we just add a ";" to the of lines of code and call it PowerC???)
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