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On 12/5/2010 10:30 PM, hutch-- wrote:
> NadCixelsyd,
>
> I have used PBCC since it was introduced years ago and it is a good
> tool if you know your way around it. Its like anything else, the more
> you know about it the better results you get and with old DOS code its
> usually faster to simply rewrite it than port it. The PBCC classic
> version is very cheap last I heard so you probably won't go bust
> buying it. Too much to describe here but its capable of producing very
> fast code if you know how to write it and it has an excellent inline
> assembler if you know what you are doing there. The later version has
> larger capacity and some additional runtime library functions but as
> an introduction the classic PBCC compiler will keep you out of trouble
> for a long time to come.
>
> hutch.

Admittedly, I bought a license to the current 6.x version after trying a 
copy of the 5.x version I grabbed a while back.  So far, I love it!  I 
am currently rewriting our office supply database at work (currently a 
hacked together Oracle-Access 2007 job) in PBCC 6 and from what I have 
released so far, those that use the application like it far better than 
the sticky point-and-clickiness of the old hackjob :)

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