Calling all online computer magazines !

I do a lot of browsing on the internet and particularly online computer/programming magazines, online programming forums, developer resource web sites, etc. One thing I find quite surprising is the lack of information or discussions about the PowerBasic programming language.  Just go to your favorite programming forum or developer magazine web site and type in PowerBasic in the search box

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Backward compatibility !

Backward compatibility is something software developers have to consider when writing their next generation of software. The question is, is it important ? My answer is yes! Let’s take something like Windows. I read an interesting article which discussed the different views within Microsoft about whether backward compatibility in the Windows operating system was important. In the past it was

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Reliable Software !

For a moment try to imagine how much code is in the average application running on Windows.  The EZGUI 5.0 Visual Designer, plus its runtime DLL’s come to about 65,000 to 70,000 lines of code. That may sound like a lot, but its actually quite small compared to many applications today. Now add to this scenario many hundreds of thousands

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