Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Wolfe Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.powerbasic Subject: Re: Questions from a possible soon-to-be. Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:51:02 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <8nneo8-6od.ln1@news.fpsoft.net> References: <22dcef25-555b-4d16-bbd3-d57490d62249@n2g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="99RsZf0X+f1dil7CBE6/pQ"; logging-data="22107"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OdHCfd3E3wH3nJjFn8TtIbcnj01Smllw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111019 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <22dcef25-555b-4d16-bbd3-d57490d62249@n2g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:QHlmzhQ6aVxJSkYxVPth/xupsvA= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.powerbasic:11 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 :)