New Release Announcement, PowerMops 6.0 for all versions of Macintosh
OS 9.xx and OSX including Tiger.
Download URL:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=152075&package_id=168230&release_id=427241
or http://sourceforge.net/projects/powermops/
License: Freeware
Short Description:
PowerMops is an Object Oriented Programming Programming language and
Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
Full Description:
PowerMops is a full featured, stand-alone development
environment for programming the Macintosh. Inspired by Smalltalk and
Neon, PowerMops is based on Forth with extensive object-oriented
features such as multiple inheritance, early and late binding,
persistent objects, and garbage collection. Its interactive
development environment provides for fluid and productive programming
by allowing quick testing and modification of large or small code
segments.
PowerMops comes with an extensive class library supporting many
Smalltalk-like classes such as containers and all of the normal Mac
graphical user interface elements. There is seamless integration of
Macintosh Toolbox calls. AltiVec and OpenGL are supported, as are
direct calls to Cocoa and Objective-C routines. Support for
Navigation Manager and NIB-based Carbon API constructs are supported.
A well written manual and Wiki-based information are available
online.
PowerMops is Carbon-compliant and runs in PPC native mode under
OS 9.x and all OS X versions released to date, including Tiger. It is
a subroutine threaded, optimizing Forth compiler resulting in programs
that run very fast. There is also a 680X0 compatible version
available, called Mops, that runs on any 680X0 Macintosh.
New with this release are support for the Mach-O executable format and
64-bit arithmetic (64-bit only for G4/G5).
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