Sydaid/C

SYDAID/C is a high level programming language for both business and technical applications. SYDAID/C enables you to develop portable software independent from the hardware platform, the operating system, the database and the user-interface technology.

Product Positioning

SYDAID/C is a powerful programming language generating optimized C code. The product consists of both a compiler and a run time library. SYDAID/C combines the advantages of traditional 4 GL's and 3 GL's.
The main goal of SYDAID/C is to allow developers to concentrate on their job, solving end users requests. SYDAID/C allows developers to solve the problems of end users without being restricted by the lack of capabilities and openness of 4 GL's nor by the lack of productivity of 3 GL's.

Product Features

powerful statements and data types (extended numeric precision, string, date, time)
excellent batch capability
automatic testing facility and friendly symbolic debugger
windowing user-interface and advanced scrolling
can produce module in sharable libraries
can call any existing external module
test coverage and performance tracing facilities

Language Concepts

event driven programming
automatic data type conversion (polymorphism) in expressions and argument passing (subroutine calls)
object based programming
code can be linked to visual screen objects
complete object navigation
persistency support
knowledge of the database objects
capability to save and restore object workspace
structure programming
declarative IO
late binding

Product Integration

SYDAID/C is open-ended and allows easy integration with other modules of the DECADE environment.

integration with SQLer allows easy access to relational databases
index/sequential access on IMAGE DBMS is available
integration with XAM (API-calls) allows menu handling, security and interprocess communication.
XGL, an open application generator, allows to generate SYDAID applications from a high level application description.

SQLer, XAM and XGL are covered in more detail in separate data sheets.

Benefits

protection of investment:

SYDAID/C produces a clean and portable C code
SYDAID/C allows to reuse existing standards and products

return of investment:

less coding and less maintenance thus better productivity; easy prototyping
3GL never necessary (but accessible if you really want to)
access to all system resources (ideal for system integration)

expressiveness:

any kind of application domains can be considered

fast start up:

easy to understand and to learn

independent of:

database
operating system
terminal and GUI

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