Talk:PowerBASIC: Difference between revisions

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15- "Real World Experience" said, "it is quite clear from this post that support is an additional cost promoted via the forums"

This is yet one more fabrication. "Real World Experience" knows it is false, because he is the one who asked the original question on the PowerBASIC Forums. Our employees are experts on the PowerBASIC compiler. Our employees provide absolutely free technical support for questions about how to use the PowerBASIC compiler. But he"Real World Experience" asked us a question about Microsoft Visual Basic, not PowerBASIC. He"Real World Experience" had a program written in Visual Basic, and he"Real World Experience" wanted to recreate its functionality in a PowerBASIC program. He"Real World Experience" did not understand some of the statements and functions used in Visual Basic, and he wanted us to provide that information, or perhaps even write the PowerBASIC program for him. If our representative knew the quick answer to his Visual Basic problem, he would have certainly shared it. We do that every day. But, we are not Visual Basic experts. In order to answer histhe questions of "Real World Experience" about Visual Basic, or to write his program for him, we would have to do some fairly lengthy research on that product and his specific problem. That is very clear. It's also very clear that such research and custom programming is well beyond the scope of technical support from any company. Mr. Zale wrote him a very polite, businesslike message to explain it fully.

PowerBASIC is a programming tool. It is used by programmers to create an application program. We sell the tool to create a program. We will help you by answering questions about the tool, but we can't create your programs for you, and we can't generally answer technical questions about other programming tools. That would be a lifetime consulting service. If one were to follow the somewhat twisted logic of "Real World Experience", you could:

A- Visit your Sears store and buy a hammer.

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PowerBASIC is not a C compiler, and it does not attempt to emulate any one particular C Compiler the writer has in mind. PowerBASIC is a PowerBASIC Compiler, a proprietary compiler built to the PowerBASIC specification. It is not built to a C specification, any more than a Chevrolet is built to a Nissan specification.

A- We dispute that BASIC is not a mainstream language. BASIC has more users than C.

B- We dispute that any alleged "differences" listed here, even if they were true, are most notable.

C- We dispute that overloading an integer is fundamental.

D- We dispute "...in most languages...".

E- We dispute that the FPU is never used in an integer calculation in any C compiler.

F- We dispute the notion that use of the FPU in never appropriate in an integer calculation.

G- We dispute the erroneous claim that PowerBASIC always uses the FPU in integer calculations.

H- We dispute that "...this presents a unique problem in PowerBASIC."

I- We dispute that this entire paragraph is pertinent.

None of these claims are verifiable, true, or sourced. Original content is not allowed on Wikipedia.