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GoVest!
is written in CA-Visual Objects 2.5, a
great Win32 development environment. Visual Object (VO)
has it's roots in Clipper (for the young ones, this is a
DOS based, database focused xBase language) and still is
too a high degree Clipper compatible. The VO language
however has evolved tremendously compared to plain xBase
- it's fully object oriented, featuring weak and strong
typing of classes and functions. It offers a macro
compiler, allowing you to interpret pieces of code at
runtime. VO comes with standard class libraries
supporting Windows UI, database, SQL, Internet, OLE
client and server programming and more. The VO
environment is repository based, which means that you
don't use source files anymore, but store your source in
a fast, specialized database - the repository. VO's
optimizing compiler produces native Intel x86 32 Bit
code. Together with the incremental linker very fast
turnaround times are possible. It's GUI and database
editors together with the full featured class libraries
make VO an excellent tool for Rapid Application
Development. Because of it's Clipper roots Visual Objects is often considered to be an development environment for vertical database applications. But this is only one side of the story. Because of it's native code compiler and powerful language you have easy access to everything the operating system offers, including NT services, standalone VO Dlls, ActiveX controls, COM components, console applications etc. And even writing a debugger is not out of reach .... More information about Visual Object can be found here. There you'll also find a downloadable trial version. |
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