18- "Real World Experience" said, "PowerBASIC differs from mainstream languages like C in a few respects, most notably in its use of the FPU for DWORD unsigned integer calculations. Since overloading an integer is fundamental to Encryption [sic]algorithm's in most languages, this presents a unique problem in PowerBASIC."
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. In PowerBASIC, the results of a numeric overflow are undefined. The result of a stack overflow is undefined, as is the result of a buffer overflow. We believe it is prudent for the PowerBASIC programmer to write programs which avoid numeric overflow, stack overflow, and buffer overflow, too. This is a fairly straightforward concept for most programmers. Sometimes the result of an undefined operation still work as expected. But we suggest that counting on it is foolish, at best. None of the claims of "Real World Experience" are verifiable, true, or sourced. Original content is not allowed on Wikipedia.
A- We dispute that BASIC is not a mainstream language. BASIC has more users than C.
