Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:28:16 -0600 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:28:10 +0100 From: Olav User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.powerbasic Subject: Re: Legacy program for PowerBASIC? References: <6681816c-5149-4ad1-98c7-46cc71a1ffa4@x19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 49.213-153-24.bkkb.no Message-ID: <4f3a6168$1@proxy.mimer.no> X-Original-Trace: 14 Feb 2012 14:28:08 +0200, 49.213-153-24.bkkb.no Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-w3buihiwWg63+zNCS7/7RKYtMaLB/jIpdjoo9L/as3k0pkFcL/xY/DSP4iAVRaEPWYWY7IEFvVShsIK!g9Ia6rK46GIYoI8PsYYw5Pb6W+JUbYGxTpNEsKD6LtDM3su4CEE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2314 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.powerbasic:21 Den 13.02.2012 19:26, skrev Antti J Ylikoski: > On 13.2.2012 13:10, Bob Zale wrote: >> On Feb 7, 1:27 pm, Antti J Ylikoski wrote: > Thank you. I actually have tried the FreeBASIC for this purpose and > rejected it because it has bugs. Then you probably should reject almost every piece of software out there. > Probably those bugs won't be seen in a > toy program, but in a big and nontrivial BASIC program they will > annoyingly show. So you can tell in advanced what kind a application these bugs will appear in. Are you clairvoyant? > > So I can even at the time of writing this recommend the PowerBASIC > instead of the FreeBASIC. How on earth can you do so? You havn't even tried PB yet. I will see the www pages for the purchase if > it is not very expensive (I expect not.) > > kind regards, Andy Ylikoski > Helsinki, Finland, the E.U. I think Andy is a fake. Created by Bob Zale. --