ANNOUNCE: CodeMagicCD Version 1.0
New York based software developer, The Blue Square Group,
announces the release of CodeMagicCD Ver 1.0., a three-level
toolkit for professional programmers. This software is now
available at www.CodeMagicCD.com.
CodeMagicCD, The Complete Programmer's Toolkit For Win32,
CDRom Version 1.0 includes:
***CODEMAGIC UNIVERSAL IDE***
This high-quality, multi-language, professional programmer's
editor proved itself by being used by more than 12,000 users
before coming out of its beta stage. It has a thriving
community of users, its own mailing lists, and the best
programming user interface of any editor currently on the
market.
Now in version 1.0, this editor supports over 12 languages,
and more are being added regularly.
Among the features of this editor, you will find:
* User configurable syntax highlighting for multiple languages
* Extremely configurable and flexible editing environment
* A pure build of core Perl 5.005_03, with more than a hundred
of the most popular perl modules built in (yes, including Tk,
GD, DBD/DBI, Win32::ODBC, and DB_File). Although CodeMagic can
be used with other versions of Win32-based perl, this standard
build is used because it's embedding and extension mechanisms
are not corrupted or C++ based, and can therefore be used as
a macro language and API extension language for the editor
itself, or from any other language that supports DLL linkage.
* Code templates for lightning fast coding
* Per-user configuration, for multi-user machines
* The ability to work with any text file, and these languages:
Perl, Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Html, Html with
embedded JavaScript/VBScript/PerlScript/PML, ASP, VBScript,
BASIC, Visual Basic, Pascal (Delphi), REBOL, Tcl and TclTk,
SQL, Lisp, PML (PerlMagic/Lightning or the "Perl Markup
Language"), and DOS/4DOS/NT Batch Files
* Revision control
* FTP communication, excellent for telecommuters, web program-
mers, and remote projects
* Project management
* Online customer support
***PACKAGED SOFTWARE***
Included on this CD is the software that makes Microsoft run
and hide. Free tools, freely distributed, hand picked from
around the world. These tools allow for a 100% complete
programming environment that VisualStudio could never beat.
Any kind of programming currently in existence is included,
from basic learning to web programming to advanced COM and
device driver development. (Microsoft doesn't want you to
know that these tools are available. They have nothing that
can compete.) These tools include:
* Perl 5.005_03, PerlMagic port. (Perl 5.6 is not stable at
this time.) This port of perl contains only the true Win32
port of Perl. This means that embedding and extending are
not corrupted, as they are in other Win32 ports of Perl.
As the hands down industry standard language for web and
administration programming, and as the most powerful script
programming and text programming language in existence
today... not to mention the fastest, Perl is a "must have"
for everyone, even if it's to use it as a super-advanced
command line tool.
* TclTk, the original "popular" scripting language, and the
first scripting language (that we know of) to put GUI
programming in reach of entry-level programmers.
* Python, the up-and-coming scripting language preferred
by its several-hundred-thousand-member community.
* A large set of GNU programming tools, such as grep, diff,
patch, awk, sed, merge, and many others required for full-
featured programming.
* The REBOL language, an extremely high-level language that
allows you to send an email in one line of code. Of course,
this is just an example. If it can be done on the internet,
REBOL can do it in the blink of an eye. No complicated
sockets or protocol programming to get in the way.
* The wxWindows GUI toolkit for C/C++ brings simple, object-
oriented Windows programs within easy reach of the average
Joe or Josephine. No longer do poor-quality COM and ActiveX
components rule the Windows GUI world.
* The industry standard GNU C++ complier for Win32 (MinGWin),
with its accompanying Assembler, Fortran77 compiler, and C
and Objective C Compliers and tools. (Who said programming
in C took a $1000 set of do-little wizards? Oh, that's right,
Microsoft does!)
* The DJGPP DOC C compiler used for many years by C programmers
around the world.
* Cint, C Interpreter powerful enough to run itself running a
program written in C. (Yes, you read that right, it is powerful
enough to run its own source code, and have that running code
run another program.) There are times when the code-compile-
link-run steps need simplification. Just write it and run
it with this tool.
* YaBasic, proof that BASIC is not a Microsoft commodity.
* Other tools and languages, more of which will be added until
no language is unavailable to our users, and people begin to
realize that they really do have better choices than the
supposed de-facto standards dictated by Redmond.
***THE PACKAGE***
All of this comes in a tidy package to tie everything together.
New programmers can use just one language, and not have to worry
about any of the others (but can graduate to them when the
need arises). Hackers (the guys who wear the propeller hats)
can enjoy learning and using everything in the most complete
programming package available anywhere for the Win32 platform.
One of the most pervasive problems with getting these superior
tools into the public workplace is the lack of wizards, gadgets,
buttons, gizmos, and little spinning icons. In other words,
management has always liked these languages, but couldn't find
themselves accepting them, because of the lack of any congruity
between them, or of any interface for them. This package
provides that interface once and for all.
***SUPPORT***
CodeMagicCD includes free installation support, per-incident
phone support, free email support, and mailing list support.
The languages contained in the package collectively have over
100 methods of free and commercial support. Nothing at Microsoft
can top that.