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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Mark R Onyschuk <g1markus@cdf.toronto.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: OBJECT: Math 1.11 and OBJECT:Math Function Kits Date: 13 Sep 1993 17:13:27 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 101 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <272npn$h03@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: Andre Angelantoni M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. 389 Leslie St., Unit 2 Toronto, Canada M4M 3E3 phone: 416-462-3954 e-mail: ask-oa@plexus.guild.org M. ONYSCHUK AND ASSOCIATES INC. INTRODUCES OBJECT:MATH 1.11 AND OBJECT:MATH FUNCTION KITS. TORONTO CANADA, September 13 1993 - M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OBJECT:Math 1.11, the latest version of its comprehensive set of tools and 22 Objective-C classes used to add extensible math and string handling to NEXTSTEP applications. Classes shipped with the OBJECT:Math kit include: 1. a value class which encapsulates standard Objective-C data types, and which can easily be subclassed to support custom types such as vectors, matrices, or dates and times. 2. a compiler which converts math and string expressions as might be typed into a spreadsheet cell or plotting package, into Objective-C objects. 3. an unbundler which allows end-users to extend OBJECT:Math applications with dynamically loaded custom-built or third-party OBJECT:Math function kits. 4. a collection of UI elements including a Lotus Improv (TM) style function picker, variable browser, and objects used to display OBJECT:Math expression trees. OBJECT:Math also ships ready to run a collection of pre-fabricated function kits available from M. Onyschuk and Associates as well as from third parties. Kits include MathBundle and StringBundle which ship with every copy of OBJECT:Math, and Fuzzy Logic Bundle, a kit which allows users to implement functions which map collections of fuzzy, or vague, inputs to a fuzzy output. Fuzzy Logic Bundle makes OBJECT:Math an invaluable tool for applications involving process control. OBJECT:MATH IN COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: ``Today's commercial NEXTSTEP software faces stiff competition from DOS and Windows work-alikes,'' says Andre Angelantoni, M. Onyschuk and Associates' programmer and head of technical publications. ``When we set out to develop our DatabaseKit-based report writer product, we aimed to create an application which could do things Windows and OS/2 report writers just couldn't! Today, users can customize our report writer with their own function kits and support for custom data types. They can even build functions to connect to live data sources, or gather information through panels and other UI elements at different stages of the report generation process. This is why we developed OBJECT:Math.'' ``OBJECT:Math was designed for use in our own products,'' says Mark Onyschuk, M. Onyschuk and Associates president, ``but we soon realized that we and other NEXTSTEP developers stood to gain even more if we offered OBJECT:Math as a lingua franca for extensible NEXTSTEP software. The product architecture is flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of applications, from database server products, to presentation graphics packages, to spreadsheets; and we're interested in working with other developers to make this happen.'' WHO, WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW MUCH: OBJECT:Math ships ready to run on both NS/M68K and NS/Intel systems, and may be licensed directly from M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. for $249.95, or $599.95 with complete product source. University and college staff and students can license OBJECT:Math for as little as $49.95, or $249.95 with product source. For more information about OBJECT:Math, OBJECT:Math function kits, or a free OBJECT:Math demo, contact M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. at ask-oa@plexus.guild.org, or look for ObjectMathDemo1.11.tar.gz, posted to cs.orst.edu and currently located in the submissions folder. --- M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. is a Toronto-based developer of custom and commercial NEXTSTEP software. OBJECT:Math, MathBundle, StringBundle, and Fuzzy Logic Bundle are trademarks of M. Onyschuk and Associates Inc. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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