Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-b.uni-c.dk!news.uni-c.dk!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!news.ipf.net!news From: Frieder Monninger Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.oberon,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object Subject: Visual Eiffel for Windows 95/NT to be released Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:18:04 -0700 Organization: SIG Computer GmbH Lines: 73 Message-ID: <326534EC.5B5D@sigco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip203.pop-frankfurt.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I; 16bit) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.ada:58414 comp.lang.beta:10850 comp.lang.c++:212064 comp.lang.eiffel:24875 comp.lang.misc:35121 comp.lang.oberon:17413 comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc:71760 comp.lang.sather:12893 comp.lang.smalltalk:51459 comp.object:62719 SIG Computer GmbH of Braunfels, Germany is poised to release Visual Eiffel, the first Eiffel compiler designed specifically for the Windows 95/NT platform. This compiler is packed with features that you would expect from a product of this name (not all features are included in the basic package): (more information in http://www.sigco.com) - Direct generation of 32-bit native code for Intel 386 and above, with no need for a C compiler. (No more configuration hassles with back-end C compilers.) - High performance - Visual Eiffel is FAST! - A true windows-hosted drag-and-drop integrated workbench featuring: - syntax highlighting - debugger - textual browser based on Eiffel short and flat forms - graphical browser based on the BON notation - GUI interface builder - Direct access to the Windows API in Eiffel - Generation of GUI applications and genuine Win32 console-mode applications - Generation of DLLs, and calls to DLL routines - The ability to produce precompiled sourceless libraries that can be freely mixed and matched - Libraries designed especially for Windows: - WINLIB, an Eiffel encapsulation of the Windows API - DALE, the Database Access Library (using ODBC) - GRAPE, the high level GUI library - WINE, the OLE cluster - Eiffel specific libraries - The Eiffel Library Standard Kernel classes - SIG's own Container, Time/Date and Formatter clusters - ISE's EiffelBase and WEL clusters Visual Eiffel will be available in the three configurations: - An evaluation license allows you to try Visual Eiffel for free. You can download the software from SIG's FTP server. The evaluation version allows you to compile projects to p-code, comes only with the basic libraries and excludes the debugger. - The personal license (US$299.00) adds the ability to compile to native code (but without "finalization" - the final stage of optimization). - The professional license (US$499.00) adds the ability to finalize the generated code for maximum performance, and includes the DALE, GRAPE and WINE libraries and the Interface Builder. Until December 31, 1996 you can obtain Visual Eiffel at the following reduced introductory prices: Evaluation license: sorry, no reduction ;-) Personal license: US$199.00 Professional license: US$350.00 Delivery will start on October 31st. The product will be shown for the first time in Munich at the Systems Exhibition (21 to 25th of October). If you plan to come to Munich - visit our stand: Hall 3, A01. -- Frieder Monninger SIG Computer GmbH D 35619 Braunfels http://www.sigco.com + 49 6472-2096 (fax -911 031)