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Paris, June 03, 2003. PHILIPPE MOUGIN ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF F-SCRIPT 1.2.4 FOR MAC OS X. F-Script is a lightweight object-oriented interactive and scripting layer specifically designed for Mac OS X object system (i.e. Cocoa). F-Script version 1.2.4 greatly enhances the integration between F-Script and Cocoa, and comes with extended documentation (a detailed description of what is new in this version can be found at http://www.fscript.org/releaseNotes/). F-Script provides several innovative object-oriented technologies: - F-Script is the only open-source scripting environment for Mac OS X using Cocoa as its native object model. - The graphical F-Script object browser (a.k.a. "behavioral inspector") allows users to interactively invoke methods on any Cocoa or custom Objective-C objects without writing code. Other innovative graphical tools like the F-Script array inspector provide powerful means for the exploration of objects. - F-Script introduces an innovative programming model based on the integration of array programming and object-oriented programming. This model shines in its ability to express computations at a high level of abstraction, allowing one to manipulate and query whole sets of data at once. As a result, complex expressions manipulating entire sets of objects are easy to design and are expressed in an extremely compact manner, without requiring the explicit use of loops, tests, or navigation instructions. The same expressions would require several tens or hundreds of lines of code in conventional object-oriented programming languages. - F-Script can be embedded into other applications thanks to a set of extremely easy to use components. In addition, F-Script can be dynamically injected into any Cocoa application at run-time, thanks to the "F-Script Anywhere" technology developed by Nicholas Riley. Based on Smalltalk's syntax and concepts, F-Script provides a pure object-oriented environment that leverage Mac OS X technologies and aims to be a useful and fun tool for both beginners and experts. It allows interactively exploring, testing and using Cocoa-based objects and frameworks. F-Script is used in various fields including game development, software debugging, astrophysics, biology, music analysis, embedded extension language etc. F-Script is released free of charge, as an open source software. It can be downloaded from http://www.fscript.org. The F-Script project is sponsored by the European Smalltalk User Group (www.esug.org) and SQLI (www.sqli.com). __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
