ActiveState's Komodo IDE honored in SD Times 100 Named 'First Professional IDE for Scripting Languages'.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2003 ActiveState(TM), the leader in programming tools for open source developers and anti-spam software for enterprises, is pleased to announce Komodo's(R) recognition by SD Times in the "Tools and Environments" category, as the first professional-quality IDE for scripting language A high-level programming, or command, language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting, or script, language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an developers. The SD Times 100 ranks companies and organizations that demonstrated the greatest innovation and leadership in the software development industry over the previous year. Komodo by ActiveState provides a powerful workspace for editing, debugging and testing applications. Komodo is optimized for Perl, Python, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. , Tcl, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , and XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). , and runs on Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. and Linux. Komodo offers an advanced language-aware editor with features such as background syntax-checking and AutoCompletion; an easy-to-use, yet powerful debugger; Source Code control; CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. emulation; templates; and integration with ActiveState Programmer (ASPN ASPN ActiveState Programmer Network ASPN American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons ASPN American Society of Pediatric Nephrology ASPN Active State Programmer Network ASPN Active Server Pages Network ) resources. "The SD Times 100 looked for companies which set a direction that developers and the industry followed in 2002," said Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "When choosing the SD Times 100, we carefully considered each company's offerings and reputation, as well as the attention and conversation we've heard around the company and its products and technologies, as a sign of leadership within the industry." "Komodo went from a promise to a success in just a few years, and it's deeply gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see our hard work recognized by SD Times," said David Ascher, Komodo Technical Lead, ActiveState. "I want to extend special thanks to our users, who have consistently given us the feedback we needed to evolve Komodo into the tool they needed. It's also quite energizing energizing, adj giving energy to; revitalizing; rejuvenating. as we look at the next round of evolutionary changes which promise to make Komodo even easier to use and more powerful." Komodo 2.3 Professional Edition, featuring Source Code Control Integration, Visual Package Manager, and ActiveState GUI Builder, targets professional programmers and is offered for $295. Komodo 2.0 Personal Edition is designed for educational or non-commercial usage for $29.50. More details are available by visiting: http://www.ActiveState.com/Komodo. About SD Times Launched in February 2000, BZ Media's SD Times is the newspaper of record for the software-development industry. SD Times is published twice monthly in identical print and digital editions, and can also be read online at http://www.sdtimes.com About ActiveState Corp. ActiveState is the leading provider of software solutions that increase productivity and organizational efficiency through the innovative use of open source technology. Additional information on ActiveState's industrial strength anti-spam software for enterprises and programming tools for open source language developers is available at: http://www.ActiveState.com. ActiveState and Komodo are trademarks of ActiveState Corp. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. (C) ActiveState Corporation 2003. |
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