ME Labs getting Lazy?

[Darrel Taylor]

Arrrrgh, I dislike these threads!
Frankly I haven't read it all. But I still have to chime in here.

Have we forgotten already!!

Was it not just a few months ago that MeLabs turned PBP into a 32-bit language.
In contrast to the 16-bit language it has been for many years.

Lazy, I think not!

That single upgrade was Humongous!
The number of macro's increased from 3 thousand+ to over 5000 !!!!

This stuff doesn't happen by magic.
Somebody actually has to write it. (Jeff Schmoyer)

Then Someone has to test it. (Charles Leo)

The two go back and forth for months to make sure it will work when you use it.
E: I think there's a few others involved too??

Then if something is still wrong, they accept emails (and are very good at responding).
And with every problem ever mentioned (that I know of), they've fixed it.

Does that mean they've solved your problem of communication with NMEA 2000 over a CAN buss? NO! That's your job.

I'm with Melanie.
There's never been anything that a PIC can do, that I haven't been able to do with PicBasic Pro.

If delivering the perfect compiler with ongoing support makes you lazy? Then you're right.
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[Archangel]

Hello,
I think PBP is a bargain at 250 bucks, anyone ever priced Mastercam or surfcam or orcad?
Boo Koo Bucks, many many thousands of dollars, and an annual license fee. My hat's off to
M. E. Labs, Thank You for a great product.
JS

[Charles Linquis]

It is a bargain. But what is wrong with wanting more - especially when you offer to pay for it?

[Archangel]

Hi Charles,
I suppose that's why a cheap car costs 25 thousand dollars, nobody wants a BASIC car anymore (word play intentional).

[skimask]

Hi Charles,
I suppose that's why a cheap car costs 25 thousand dollars, nobody wants a BASIC car anymore (word play intentional).

$25K? Until 3 years ago, I never paid more than $1200 for a car!

[Acetronics2]

$25K? Until 3 years ago, I never paid more than $1200 for a car!

Hi, Ski

Humour ON

May be that's why your engines have exploded !!! ( I really don't remember where I read that ...)

Humour OFF

Regards

Alain

[skimask]

Hi, Ski
Humour ON
May be that's why your engines have exploded !!! ( I really don't remember where I read that ...)
Humour OFF
Regards
Alain

Humour ON / OFF - must be part of that new HTML code for the Internet 2.0

Engines - not a car this time, it was my garden tractor. But on a side note, I have blown up my share (+ a few others shares) of engines...most on purpose...something about a brick that magically gets stuck on a throttle...I haven't the faintest idea how that happened...

[krohtech]

Arrrrgh, I dislike these threads!
Frankly I haven't read it all. But I still have to chime in here.

Hello Darrel,

I would like to ask you to read the entire thread. I understand that the title makes it sound as if it's a ME Labs bashing thread but most of the feedback is positive.

[Darrel Taylor]

Ok, I have read it all.

Still sounds like a lot of whining to me.
And a couple people disagreeing with them.

Doesn't do this, doesn't do that.
This compilers better, that compilers better.

They just take all our money and never give us anything, boo-hoo-hoo.
If only PBP had this one function, I could write a program that would make me Lots of money.
But that stupid PicBasic compiler doesn't have that, so it's melabs fault that I'm still broke.

I mean, come-on, I gave them $250, that's like maybe a days pay for many professionals.
They should give me everything, and write new ones to my request.<hr>
Possibly a little over-dramatized, but that's what I see.

My statement still stands.
With 2.50, melabs just doubled the power of PicBasic Pro, for a meer $25.
I can't imagine how they even keep the doors open with such little income.

They are not the lazy one's.
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[skimask]

My statement still stands.
With 2.50, melabs just doubled the power of PicBasic Pro, for a meer $25.

Don't you mean the power of PicBasicPro just went up by about 2^16?

[Darrel Taylor]

Hmmm, well ...

It does give you a few billion more possibilities.
But it doesn't feel like it's 65,536 times more powerful.

I think I'll stick with double.
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[skimask]

I think I'll stick with double.

I'll buy that...literally...
I know some of my longer code has really shortened up quite a bit now that I'm able to put more math on one line...with more colons of course.
At the expense of more code space usage though... I'm still OPTIMIZING my latest proggy back down below 64K to add more functionality. 2100 lines and still going... Another optimization project anyone?

[Darrel Taylor]

I know some of my longer code has really shortened up quite a bit now that I'm able to put more math on one line...with more colons of course.
At the expense of more code space usage though... I'm still OPTIMIZING my latest proggy back down below 64K to add more functionality. 2100 lines and still going... Another optimization project anyone?

I've contacted my vendor, and all he could come up with was 20 cases of toilet paper.

With 64k in 2100 lines, there's just too many colons to "Optimize".

If I don't have to kill any trees. I'd take a look.
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