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Visual Fortran Professional Edition 6.6 Complete package
Software
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 1 user, 5 concurrent users
License Pricing: Standard, Academic
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
System requirements
OS Required: Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Today's technical, high-performance computing environments need industrial strength development tools to support application development, without compromise, across multiple platforms and operating systems. Compaq Visual Fortran, as part of the industry-leading Compaq Fortran product family, delivers what you need to succeed. The Professional Edition includes all standard features plus Compaq Array Visualizer data visualization tool that lets you view and graph array data interactively at the click of a button. It also contains the latest IMSL Fortran 77 and IMSL Fortran 90 MP numerical and statistics libraries from Visual Numerics. The IMSL Fortran library provides a comprehensive resource of more than 900 FORTRAN 77 subroutines for mathematical and statistical applications in science and engineering. The IMSL Fortran 90 MP Library includes a new generation of Fortran 90-based algorithms designed for high-performance systems.
...for multi user development enviroments.
Fox Pro 6.0
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Fox Pro can be used to build AcliveX components and classes for different languages.
This is a good tool but I feel you can do the same things in Visual Basic.
Not one of my favourites.
Tools
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The tools on the list allow you to perform several tasks such as setting Database connections and checking them, making, preparing and deploying packages for web and desktop applications and error handling.
These are essential and reflect on all or some of the above applications.
Conclusion
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Visual studio is a great tool. It comes in two forms, Professional or Enterprise. Both offer a great range of features that will suit any developer. It starts at £275 which is not a bad price compared to some tools.
My only problem is it is very vague with its help guides and topics...
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...is where the expense comes in.
A lot of student friends of mine rushed out in the Summer holidays and purchased a proffessional package like JBuilder or Microsoft's inferior Visual J++ for a tidy couple of hundred quid...but there is literally NO NEED to do this. Sure, you get a package which is neatly tarted up, but at the end of the day that is all you get - well, all you get for a beginner programmer. You will have no need of the tools etc. you have in this package, not for a long while after purchase so you might as well go for the entirely free alternative - and one which works equally well, and in some cases better. Sun Microsystems offers a program called the Java Development Kit(JDK) completely free for donwload from their site:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/
It comes in at around 20Mb in size with an extra 9Mb to download...
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I have been using this product for one month now and must say, although being a bit sceptical to begin with; I am pleasantly surprised by the performance of the product.
I have mild Arthritis and wanted to minimise my typing input.
On receiving... more
Before I go any further, I'll say this review is for a product that would only be of use to people with a developer background and as such assumes that the reader will know what all the acronyms and buzzwords mean. I don't explain them in layman's terms... more
Before I start this review I'm going to apologise for how long it is likely to be, but to properly review such a huge product as an operating system is going to take quite a lot more than a few paragraphs. To make it easier for you to find the... more
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