Visual Eiffel for Windows 95/NT to be released

Visual Eiffel for Windows 95/NT to be released

[Frieder Monninger]

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
<fm@sigco.com>                               D 35619 Braunfels
http://www.sigco.com                  + 49 6472-2096 (fax -911 031)

Re: Visual Eiffel for Windows 95/NT to be released

[Pascal Obry]

Very interesting but this is comp.lang.ada !

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