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News Release from: PenDraw | Subject: PenDraw
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 May 2005
Language offers easy route to 2D
graphics
PenDraw is an all-new programming language for producing 2D web graphics in XML-SVG.
PenDraw is an all-new programming language for producing 2D web graphics in XML-SVG Designed to work on PCs or web servers, it makes dynamic server-side graphics a practical reality and enables integration of 2D graphics with Internet systems
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Engineers and draughtspeople have quickly learned to produce entire technical drawings with no tuition.
PenDraw has achieved a true breakthrough in programmer orientation, speed of development, compile-time debugging and program reliability.
Furthermore, PenDraw has the benefit of being easy to learn because its semantics are about what the user wants to draw.
With a syntax derived from Basic, PenDraw can be picked up in no time.
PenDraw's high development cost-effectiveness opens up a host of new possibilities for web systems.
There are two PenDraw products: PenDraw, the command-line compiler and run-time environment, is free.
The current version runs on Windows, and a Linux version is scheduled third quarter 2005.
The second product, PenDrawDev, is a purpose-built development tool with integrated editor, syntax-constructor, debugger, and run time.
It is the fastest way to learn and program in PenDraw and comes with a 30-day free trial, an initial price of GBP 30 (US $55/Eur 44) and runs on Windows.
PenDraw has raised 2D graphics to the level of drawing logic, which greatly simplifies it, and opens a new era for 2D graphics programming.
For years users have shied away from graphics programming because it was hard, slow, and bug-infested (plus, for good measure, in-your-face matrix maths).
Because PenDraw works in user drawing logic, it is between three and 10 times faster to develop graphics programs.
PenDraw code is more compact too, typically two-thirds less to write plus the language is designed to be side-effect free, for improved reliability.
On top of that because of its graphics logic the compiler detects many bugs that other languages leave designers to hit at run-time.
With PenDraw, graphics programming is much more cost-effective - enabling previously unaffordable opportunities.
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