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PB as a general language
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| hog.badger@mbox.bol.bg 2006-04-26, 4:04 am |
| I've had a look at the 'getting started' docs for PB9, and the language
looks to be a real beauty for putting together Windows-API apps. But
the focus is all on DB apps, which isn't where I'm at.
Is PB any good as a general language, say for filters ... programs to
read one or more files, text or binary, extract data from them and
output more files or reports?
I can be more specific, but you probably get the idea.
Thanks
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| IW0DJB 2006-04-27, 7:05 pm |
| I think that PB it's a very good product for working with databases and
other kind of files using the datawindows.
<hog.badger@mbox.bol.bg> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1146037747.800677.290530@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> I've had a look at the 'getting started' docs for PB9, and the language
> looks to be a real beauty for putting together Windows-API apps. But
> the focus is all on DB apps, which isn't where I'm at.
>
> Is PB any good as a general language, say for filters ... programs to
> read one or more files, text or binary, extract data from them and
> output more files or reports?
>
> I can be more specific, but you probably get the idea.
>
> Thanks
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| Philip & Elena Salgannik 2006-04-28, 4:05 am |
| If you are not doing any database interaction at ALL, PB is NOT the tool to
use. It will be prohibitively expensive to pay for it and deploy it's
runtime just for small non-database related utility apps...
<hog.badger@mbox.bol.bg> wrote in message
news:1146037747.800677.290530@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> I've had a look at the 'getting started' docs for PB9, and the language
> looks to be a real beauty for putting together Windows-API apps. But
> the focus is all on DB apps, which isn't where I'm at.
>
> Is PB any good as a general language, say for filters ... programs to
> read one or more files, text or binary, extract data from them and
> output more files or reports?
>
> I can be more specific, but you probably get the idea.
>
> Thanks
>
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| hog.badger@mbox.bol.bg 2006-04-28, 8:06 am |
| Ah, yes, the cost.
It's a pity we don't have a stripped-down give-away version without
database support.
PB might go head-to-toe with VB and Java and even C++ for putting
together small tools and utilities.
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| Philip & Elena Salgannik 2006-04-28, 10:02 pm |
| Well, there is 75$ student version of PB desktop, but I was not only talking
pure money, but the operational cost of deploying PB runtime to each PC
were you want your apps to be used
<hog.badger@mbox.bol.bg> wrote in message
news:1146218665.997138.156540@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Ah, yes, the cost.
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> It's a pity we don't have a stripped-down give-away version without
> database support.
> PB might go head-to-toe with VB and Java and even C++ for putting
> together small tools and utilities.
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| hog.badger@mbox.bol.bg 2006-04-29, 7:03 pm |
| Oh, so you cannot build stand-alone executables with PB?
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| Philip & Elena Salgannik 2006-05-07, 10:08 pm |
| No.
<hog.badger@mbox.bol.bg> wrote in message
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> Oh, so you cannot build stand-alone executables with PB?
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