NEWS: Objective-C and Ada95 from Tenon

[Eric A. Dubiel]

FYI:  Useful for future OPENSTEP, Windows, UNIX, and Mac OS projects...

This press release is from:

<anita at tenon.com (Anita Holmgren)>

Phone:  805-963-6983
FAX:    805-962-8202
Contact:   Anita Holmgren
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Objective-C and Ada95 Now Available for Power Mac

MachTen CodeBuilder - An affordable software development tool for the
next generation MacOS

Santa Barbara, CA, January 7, 1997.  Tenon Intersystems has extended
MachTen - its highly-regarded UNIX system for Apple computers - to
include the Objective-C and the GNAT-Ada 95 tool suite.    MachTen
CodeBuilder, a new offering from Tenon being demonstrated this week at
Macworld in San Francisco,  includes C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Ada95 and
Fortran77.  CodeBuilder can be used in combination with standard
Macintosh editors and compilers to develop Macintosh applications, X
applications, and UNIX applications.

MachTen CodeBuilder extends MacOS with a family of dynamically-linked,
shared libraries that, like a Java virtual machine, create a UNIX virtual
machine-based execution environment with pre-emptive multi-tasking.
Tenon's MachTen UNIX is based on the same Carnegie Mellon Mach and BSD
UNIX foundation as Steve Jobs' NeXT OS, making CodeBuilder a good
platform for porting and building next-generation MacOS applications.

The native PowerPC (PPC) package contains a complete UNIX software
development environment with a source-level debugger and C, C++,
Objective-C, Ada95 and Fortran77 compilers all generating native PPC
code. Because CodeBuilder creates binary PowerPC Executable Format (PEF)
files that can integrate directly with other Macintosh development tools,
software developers can combine Macintosh debuggers and compilers with
the CodeBuilder tool suite to get the best of both the Macintosh and UNIX
worlds.

CodeBuilder is a powerful tool for porting existing UNIX applications or
developing new, advanced applications on Power Macs and Power Mac clones.
 This unique toolset gives developers the ability to create an
application with a single source base not only for Power Macs under a
native Apple operating system, but also for Silicon Graphics, SUN, NeXT,
or HP environments.  CodeBuilder gives Apple developers the freedom to
take advantage of time-tested UNIX development tools without giving up
the features of their favorite Macintosh editors or compilers.

Tenon's new development tool suite includes a native UNIX fast file
system.  CodeBuilder has two file systems - a UNIX file system which
extends the Macintosh file system with file name case sensitivity, and
this new native fast file system which removes the Macintosh file name
length limitations and sizing restrictions.  Tenon's fast file system can
be contained within a single Macintosh file, making disk partitioning
unnecessary.  Depending upon the application, Tenon's new file system can
result in a two- to ten-fold performance improvement.  This performance
advantage, coupled with the latest high-performance Power Macs, creates a
new standard in desktop computing.

CodeBuilder supports a complete GNU software development environment.
The GNU Ada95 and Objective-C compiler were brought to Power Macs  by
leveraging Tenon's existing gcc development tool suite.   The Ada95
environment includes up-to-date tools for object-oriented programming and
the core Ada essential tools suite from the Free Software Foundation. The
Ada compiler includes a tasking run-time environment, an interface to the
MacOS threads library, and Ada language bindings to the Macintosh Toolbox
(API).

Objective-C, an object-oriented extension to the C language, is the
NeXTStep development language. The GNUStep OpenStep base class library is
included on the CodeBuilder CD as a source code compilation example.
GNUStep is a widely-available implementation of OpenStep, the NeXT
distributed application run time environment.   The fact that
CodeBuilder's Objective-C is able to build and execute large sections of
the GNUStep library demonstrates the strength of CodeBuilder's
Objective-C implementation.  A future release of CodeBuilder will include
the complete GNUStep environment.

CodeBuilder's Kaffe (a development & execution environment for Java
bytecode), scripting tools (such as Perl, MacPerl, tck/tk and expect) and
popular Macintosh and UNIX text editors (such as BBEdit Lite, Alpha, and
emacs) make CodeBuilder an ideal internet programming and Web developer
tool.

CodeBuilder includes a high-performance X11R6 24-bit color X server as
well as an X client application development environment.  The current
release supports AfterStep, a NeXT-style X desktop.  Options for OpenGL
and Motif 2.0 will be offered by the end of the first quarter of '97,
further strengthening CodeBuilder's X development capabilities.

The software comes on CD with BSD UNIX source code,  on-line
documentation in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat PDF formats, and an
introductory price of $99.

Tenon has been shipping UNIX, X , and networking software for the
Macintosh since 1991.  In 1994 MachTen was selected by UNIX World's Open
Computing magazine as "A Best Product of the Year".

Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
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