Bare Bones Software Announces TextWrangler Academic Pricing; Students Save More than Time with Powerful Text Editing and Data Wrangling Tool, Now Priced 20% Off.BEDFORD, Mass. -- Bare Bones Software Bare Bones Software is a Bedford, Massachusetts, USA software company developing software tools for the Apple Macintosh platform. The company is best known for its BBEdit text editor, marketed under the registered trademark "It doesn't suck. , Inc. today announced new academic pricing for TextWrangler(tm), the powerful, richly-featured text editor for writing and coding. Now for the first time, students and academic professionals can purchase TextWrangler for US$39 (regularly US$49). "TextWrangler is ideally suited for academic use due to its clean interface, impressive text-editing capabilities, and scalable power," said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bare Bones Software. "Although TextWrangler is already budget-priced, our relationship with students, faculty, and staff is a time-honored tradition and so we are happy to extend this discount." TextWrangler offers robust editing capabilities for writing, programming, and system administration tasks in a low-overhead package that's easy to use. TextWrangler serves as an editor for composing and modifying plain text and text-oriented data, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) files and most non-Roman single-byte files. TextWrangler includes an integrated spell checker A separate program or word processing function that tests for correctly spelled words. It can test the spelling of a marked block, an entire document or group of documents. Advanced systems check for spelling as the user types and can correct common typos and misspellings on the fly. , numerous character formatting commands, very fast multi-file search and replace, 'grep' style pattern matching 1. pattern matching - A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. based on PCRE PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expressions PCRE Payroll Check Reversal Entry (Perl-Compatible Regular Expression), a rich plug-in architecture and an array of built-in text transformation functions. To enhance productivity for software development, its Find Differences command allows programmers to quickly determine differences between similar files, while extensive AppleScript support enables automation of TextWrangler's functions or workflow solutions between applications. TextWrangler provides syntax coloring and source-code navigation for files in ANSI C (language, standard) ANSI C - (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989. cgram is a grammar for ANSI C, written in Scheme. , C++, Objective C, Fortran, Java, Object Pascal (language) Object Pascal - An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth. ["Object Pascal Report", Larry Tesler, Structured Language World 9(3):10-17 (1985)]. , Perl, Python, Rez, Tcl, TeX, and Unix shell A Unix shell, also called "the command line", provides the traditional user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems. Users direct the operation of the computer by entering command input as text for a shell to execute. script. TextWrangler transparently reads and writes text files originating on a variety of platforms, and can work with text files stored on remote FTP servers Implementations of FTP servers (organized by the nature of the interface used to configure them) include: Graphical
System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. , Pricing and Availability TextWrangler requires Mac OS X v10.2 or later (Mac OS X v10.2.6 strongly recommended). Regularly budget priced at US$49, TextWrangler is available today to students and academic professionals for US$39 via electronic download directly from Bare Bones Software. The new TextWrangler academic pricing compliments the academic pricing for BBEdit at US$119 and Mailsmith at US$79. Multi-packs and site licenses of TextWrangler are also available by contacting sales@barebones.com. TextWrangler is not available through resellers. For details please visit the company's web site at: http://www.barebones.com/store/index.shtml About Bare Bones Software, Inc. Bare Bones Software, Inc., incorporated in 1994, is a privately-held corporation based in Bedford, MA. BBEdit, the company's flagship product, has received numerous accolades from press and users, including a 2001 Macworld Editor's Choice Award, a "Great" rating from MacAddict Magazine, and a rating of 4-and-a-half mice from Macworld Magazine. The company's expanding product family also includes TextWrangler, a high-performance plain text editor, Mailsmith, and Super Get Info Super Get Info is an application by Bare Bones Software that they have billed as a replacement for the Get Info command in Mac OS X. Features
TextWrangler, Super Get Info and the Bare Bones Software logo are trademarks of, and BBEdit, Mailsmith and "It doesn't suck" are registered trademarks of Bare Bones Software, Inc. Copyright (c) 2004, All rights reserved. AppleScript is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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