*** Tim Hutzler wrote in a message to Scott Mcnay:
Geesh, the replies to that one message has DOUBLED (at least) the msg base 
size...
At least there's a decent number of people who are nice enough to reply.  ;)
TH> I can't speak for others, but I have jumped over to C++ and
TH> I suspect that a lot of folks are doing that. Not that
TH> PowerBASIC is dead. I paid for the compiler, and there are a
TH> lot of programs I wrote, and I doubt I will convert them to
TH> C++. So, whatever software I have in PB, I will maintain it
TH> in PB.
TH> But C++ is where you have to be, if you want to support any
TH> of the software that is in computer systems these days.
I don't get along with C pointers....
I like PB; it's great for writing ad-hoc programs ... but it looks like I'm 
going to be getting more into C and Turbo Pascal, anyway.
TH> As for me, I ran into the ceiling too many times. 'C' is a
TH> far more open platform, you can create classes of data-types
TH> and overload operators to manipulate those data-types. Being
TH> a mid-level language, you can do 'stuff' that was just too
TH> cumbersome with BASIC.
There's always something or other that's cumbersome with some language but 
not with another.
--Scott.
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