LG>On 02/21/97, Tim Hutzler wrote to Lawrence Gordon:
LG>There hasn't been any noise from PB about DOS upgrades to PB 3.2.
LG>I also suspect we can forget about an OS/2 version. The PowerBASIC
LG>BBS is almost dead. The usenet alt.lang.powerbasic conference is
LG>slowly and painfully losing message traffic. Dave Navarro, Joe
LG>Byrd and Bob Zale never check in over here for Fido anymore. The
LG>only real support for PB anymore is PCVENB Section 12 on
LG>Compuserve and from reading the message traffic over there it
LG>doesn't look all that rosy for PB DOS programmers :(
Dammit, Scotty! I'm a programmer not a compiler!
We'll have to roll our own. Maybe we can call it....
"BetterBASIC"! [grin]
On a more somber note....
I may be hopping off the BASIC bandwagon, too.
I'm taking a 'C++' class, and they may convert me.....
Let's get down on our knees and pray that PowerBASIC will wake up. [grin]
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