BlackBox 1.7 Press Release

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BlackBox Component Builder Release 1.7

blackboxframework.org, 2016-09-16 - Good news for all friends of Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon-style languages. The BlackBox Component Builder has been released in version 1.7 for 32-bit Windows and also runs fine under Linux/wine.

Release 1.7 contains fixes for all known issues since 2013, when BlackBox Component Builder was turned into an open source project. It also contains significant enhancements such as the possibility to localize the framework to different languages, full Unicode support for identifiers in the Component Pascal language and automatic recompilation of a set of subsystems. The new release can be downloaded from http://blackboxframework.org/.

The BlackBox Component Builder is an innovative IDE (integrated development environment) originally developed by Oberon microsystems of Switzerland. Besides efficient compilation and modern software engineering features such as garbage collection, strong typing, and object orientation, it is unique in the sense that it allows program execution within the IDE itself, i.e. without starting an external operating system process. This provides for a very efficient compile-load-execute cycle comparable with scripting languages. It also enables simple interfacing to built-in components such as the text and form subsystems.

ABOUT blackboxframework.org

blackboxframework.org is run by the BlackBox Framework Center, an international community of volunteers dedicated to maintaining and improving the BlackBox Component Builder. Current executive members are from the US, Great Britain, Austria, Germany, Russia, and China. The BlackBox Framework Center was formed in 2013 and started its work on version 1.7 in 2014. For more information, see http://forum.blackboxframework.org/.