SoftIntegration, Inc. today announced the availability of Ch 4.0, the newest version of C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, 2D/3D plotting, numerical computing, shell programming and embedded scripting.

DAVIS, CA -- August 26, 2003 -- SoftIntegration, Inc. today announced the availability of Ch 4.0, the newest version of C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, 2D/3D plotting, numerical computing, shell programming and embedded scripting.

Ch 4.0 continues SoftIntegration's leadership in scripting, 2D/3D plotting and numerical computing. Major product enhancements include shell programming, computational array for numerical computing and bug fixes.

"SoftIntegration Ch provides an unmatched level of power and flexibility in powerful C/C++ scripting. We are delivering the most robust and feature-packed scripting technology," said Dr. Dawn Cheng, President at SoftIntegration. "Ch is also a very effective interactive environment for teaching and learning programming in C99, the latest C standard, and C++."

C/C++ interpreter

Ch supports 1999 ISO C Standard (C99), C++ classes. Ch also supports many industry standards with over 8,000 functions including POSIX, socket/Winsock, X11/Motif, OpenGL, ODBC, C LAPACK, GTK+, Win32, and CGI. Functions in static or dynamical binary C/C++ libraries can be executed interpretively in scripting without re-compilation using Ch SDK.

Shell programming and cross-platform scripting

Ch shell is C compatible shell while C-shell (csh) is a C like shell. Ch is an interpretive implementation of C, similar to Unix/MS-DOS shells. Ch in Windows includes over 100 commonly-used Unix commands for portable shell programming. Ch can also be used as a login shell just like sh, csh and ksh. Ch bridges the gap between the C language and shell languages. With its built-in string type and many enhanced scripting features, Ch is an alternative to other scripting languages for automating repetitive tasks, regression test, and hardware testing with direct interface to hardware.

2D/3D plotting and numerical computing

Ch supports 2D/3D graphical plotting, C LAPACK, high level numeric functions.
Ch has built-in 2D/3D plotting support, generic mathematical functions and computational arrays for linear algebra and matrix computations, and advanced high-level numerical functions for linear systems, differential equation solving, integration, non-linear equations, Fourier analysis, curve fitting, etc. For example, linear system equation b = A*x can be written verbatim in Ch.

Its numerical extensions to C makes Ch the best choice for numerical computing in C/C++ domain.

With SoftIntegration graphical library (SIGL), the same program using 2D/3D plotting features can be executed in Ch or compiled using C++ compilers without any modification.

Ch is ideal for rapid application development and deployment. For exampple, a Control System Toolkit for design and analysis of linear time-invariant control systems developed in Ch is available.