SlickEdit, a graphical IDE (integrated development tool) used as the basis of several development tools related to embedded Linux, has gained support for a free C/C++ interpreter. The Ch interpreter, from SoftIntegration, is supported in version 9 of SlickEdit, and brings support for advanced mathematical and engineering functions.

SlickEdit is used in the toolkits from real-time Linux vendor FSMLabs, embedded specialist Microcross, hardware-assisted JTAG debugging tool vendor American Arium, and others. SlickEdit was recently listed in the SDTimes 100, a list honoring companies and organizations influencing the future of software development.

Ch is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, shell programming, numerical computing, and embedded scripting. SoftIntegraion claims Ch is the first scripting language that supports C99 features such as complex numbers, variable length arrays (VLAs), IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic, and generic mathematical functions. It extends C and C++ with computational arrays for numerical computing and graphical plotting. For example, the linear system equation “b = A*x” can be written verbatim in Ch.

SoftIntegration President Dawn Cheng commented, “Visual SlickEdit is considered the best-in-class multilanguage and multiplatform environment for the development of various applications. It is a great IDE for Ch users.”

 
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