Franz Inc. Shipping Allegro 3.0 for Windows 95; Allegro CL 3.0 for Windows is Company's Next-Generation CLOS-based Dynamic Object-Oriented Programming System.BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 1995--Franz Inc., the leader in dynamic object-oriented programming object-oriented programming, a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the technology, today announced that Allegro CL 3.0 for Windows, the company's next-generation visual development tool for Microsoft's new Windows 95 platform is shipping. Allegro CL 3.0 for Windows will enable developers to easily build and deploy complex Windows 95-compliant applications using Common Lisp Object System (language) Common LISP Object System - (CLOS) An object-oriented extension to Common LISP, based on generic functions, multiple inheritance, declarative method combination and a meta-object protocol. (CLOS CLOS - Common LISP Object System ), a powerful ANSI-standard dynamic object-oriented technology See object technology. . "Franz is committed to helping developers meet the demand for building sophisticated 32-bit applications for Windows 95," said Dr. Jim Veitch, vice president of marketing at Franz. "Allegro 3.0 for Windows will enable developers to build and deploy powerful state-of-the-art Windows 95 applications faster and more cost effectively than is possible with any other development tool today." The company also recently announced that a special online version of Allegro 3.0 is available on the company's site on the World Wide Web. Developers may download the Web version of Franz's Allegro CL 3.0 at http://www.franz.com. Franz's Allegro CL 3.0 for Windows takes advantage of the new features of Windows 95. It supports Windows 95 widgets, including tab control, outline control, tooltips, progress indicator, and multi-line status bar. Allegro CL 3.0 for Windows also has an uninstall To remove hardware or software from a computer system. In order to remove a software application from a PC, an uninstall program, also called an "uninstaller," deletes all the files that were initially copied to the hard disk and restores the AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, WIN.INI and SYSTEM. procedure and uses the registry in compliance with Microsoft's requirements for Windows 95 applications. Allegro CL 3.0 for Windows offers powerful visual programming tools. These tools enable developers to rapidly design and build GUI-rich Windows 95 applications, and evolve them incrementally, using the underlying dynamic OOP See object-oriented programming. OOP - object-oriented programming engine. Franz currently develops and markets a line of application development tools for Windows 3.1, Windows NT, and most UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations, including Sun, Digital, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . These products are based on CLOS (Common Lisp Object System), the first ANSI-standard object-oriented language. Dynamic OOP Dynamic object-oriented programming is a software development technology that enables incremental change of object structures and behavior at run time without needing the application source code. Dynamic object-oriented languages enable developers to create user-evolved software. Because a user's requirements and modifications can easily be incorporated during development -- without recompiling the entire application -- it becomes more efficient and cost-effective to develop applications that match the specific needs of a user or organization. In addition, a dynamic OOP language's ability to be modified on the fly means that developers can add new features to an application, even after it has been deployed. This means, for example, that an online service provider who wants to add new capabilities or new features, can electronically send compiled code for the new functionality to subscribers. This code is incorporated into the running application in real time, automatically adding the new service. ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. CLOS is a powerful, second-generation dynamic OOP language with automatic memory management, multiple inheritance, method dispatching and unlimited scalability. Users of Franz's application development technology include companies such as Price Waterhouse and AT&T that use ANSI CLOS to develop sophisticated applications such as financial auditing and telephone switching Telephone switching Moving one's assets from one mutual fund or variable annuity to another by telephone. telephone switching The movement of an investor's funds from one mutual fund to another mutual fund on the basis of an order given via . General Electric and Pratt & Whitney are designing jet engines using Franz's Allegro products. Ford and Jaguar are designing new automobile systems using applications developed using Franz's technology. Motorola and Texas Instruments are using ANSI CLOS for manufacturing scheduling applications and integrated circuit design. Franz Inc. Franz Inc. is the world's leading vendor of ANSI CLOS development tools for Dynamic Object Oriented Programming. The company was founded in 1984 by affiliates of the Computer Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . The company founders also made significant contributions to Berkeley UNIX and the RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. microprocessor. Allegro CL for Windows and UNIX, AllegroStore, Allegro Composer, CLIM CLIM Climatic CLIM Common Lisp Interface Manager and other products are sold and supported worldwide through Franz' direct sales force and distribution partners. Franz customers include Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities and research institutions. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Allegro CL, AllegroStore and Allegro Composer are registered trademarks and The Leader in Dynamic OOP is a trademark of Franz Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of Novell-USG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Franz Inc. Michael Shuster, 510/548-3600 or michaels@franz.com or Patrick Corman, 415/326-9648 or corman@cerf.net |
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