Powerbasic vs VB

[Guy LaRochelle]

How does Powerbasic compare to Visual Basic? Am I missing out on something
by going to Powerbasic instead of VB.net? Any info is appreciated.
Regards. -Guy

[Clark]

Post by Guy LaRochelle
How does Powerbasic compare to Visual Basic? Am I missing out on
something by going to Powerbasic instead of VB.net? Any info is
appreciated. Regards. -Guy

You mean "missing anything other than inexplicable crashes?"

The choice between PB and VB depends to a large degree on your goals. PB
may be more cumbersome for developing graphic interfaces. VB executables
may be slower. There are many other factors that others here know more
about.

So, what are you doing with the compiler?

[Guy LaRochelle]

I need to write code to get GPS NMEA data from COM1 and write it to a data
file. It doesn't have to be real fancy. Regards. -Guy

Post by Clark

Post by Guy LaRochelle
How does Powerbasic compare to Visual Basic? Am I missing out on
something by going to Powerbasic instead of VB.net? Any info is
appreciated. Regards. -Guy

You mean "missing anything other than inexplicable crashes?"
The choice between PB and VB depends to a large degree on your goals. PB
may be more cumbersome for developing graphic interfaces. VB executables
may be slower. There are many other factors that others here know more
about.
So, what are you doing with the compiler?

[Guy LaRochelle]

I need to write code to get GPS NMEA data from COM1 and write it to a data
file. It doesn't have to be real fancy. Regards. -Guy

Post by Clark

Post by Guy LaRochelle
How does Powerbasic compare to Visual Basic? Am I missing out on
something by going to Powerbasic instead of VB.net? Any info is
appreciated. Regards. -Guy

You mean "missing anything other than inexplicable crashes?"
The choice between PB and VB depends to a large degree on your goals. PB
may be more cumbersome for developing graphic interfaces. VB executables
may be slower. There are many other factors that others here know more
about.
So, what are you doing with the compiler?

[Dominic Sexton]

Post by Guy LaRochelle
I need to write code to get GPS NMEA data from COM1 and write it to a data
file. It doesn't have to be real fancy. Regards. -Guy

As others have said PB will be fine for this and the final package will
be very much smaller than with VB.

You may have already seen this information but if not here is a good
source of info on NMEA.

http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter/idx_nmeadoc.html