Causeway joins the Dyalog family
We are extremely pleased to announce that Dyalog completed the acquisition of Causeway Graphical Systems on April 1 2007.
Causeway is a household name in the world of APL software programming. For more than a decade the tools developed by the company have been used by software developers in a multitude of software applications over a broad range of platforms. The tools include: RainPro graphics engine – also known as SharpPlot for the Windows.NET platform, NewLeaf report formatter, and CausewayPro framework for Rapid Graphical User Interface (GUI) development.
RainPro, NewLeaf and CausewayPro will all be incorporated into Dyalog for Windows from Version 11.1 – which is planned for release later this year.
You will also be happy to learn that we do not plan any changes to the price structure on account of implementing these tools in version 11.1.
Adrian Smith, the founder of Causeway, is recognized in the worldwide array language community as a visionary systems architect and master tools smith. Adrian will continue to work as chief architect on the Causeway product line, particularly with a focus to design further enhancements. Jonathan Manktelow has joined Dyalog as a full time developer.
We’re extremely pleased to welcome the Causeway team onboard. Not only do we gain additional developer resources, particularly for combining the use of Dyalog with components written in C#. This is of great value as we continue to work towards a seamless integration of Dyalog with the Microsoft.Net platform. We’re also now have a unique opportunity to take forward excellent products and make them available to many more users.
Dyalog Ltd. is also taking ownership of the APL-to-C# Translator developed by Causeway, as well as the accompanying SharpArrays array library for the Microsoft.Net platform.
We’re not currently planning to develop the APL-to-C# translator technology into a general tool for deployment of APL applications. However, we firmly believe that the technology is very useful to those of our customers who wish to produce fully managed components from APL source code. We will therefore make the translator available on a per project basis with Adrian Smith providing consultancy, development and support.
See the press release here (UK version / DK version).
On a more lighthearted note:
Development tools can be used for many different applications. See one of the more fun ones which was developed using SharpPlot here.