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- From: wbrodie@panix.com (Bill Brodie)
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- Subject: Chestnut Software asset sale
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:08:12 -0500
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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- Chestnut Software, a company I founded during the 1980s, is being
- liquidated. Chestnut's technology is used to develop and deliver advanced
- computing applications by commercial and government customers in the U.S.,
- Europe, and Asia. Although I have not been associated with the company for
- several years, I would like to see that its technology finds a good home in
- capable hands, and that it will continue to be maintained and used by the
- development community. For this reason I am helping the trustee who now
- owns the company's assets to identify potential bidders.
-
- Requests for bidders' packages, or more information, should be addressed
- to wbrodie@panix.com. PLEASE USE E-MAIL, since I will be unable to monitor
- all responses posted to newsgroups.
-
- Chestnut's intellectual-property assets include:
-
- Lisp-to-C Translator - Translates applications written in Common Lisp
- directly into clean, human-readable, compact, efficient, and
- highly-portable C code. Supports all of the First Edition of Guy
- Steele's "Common Lisp: The Language", and much of the Second Edition,
- including a complete CLOS implementation. The Translator was the
- collective effort of a team of world-class developers, including
- several members of the ANSI Common Lisp standards committee (X3J13).
- It includes a self-contained run-time library, written in C, which can
- be used or marketed separately; a run-time memory manager; several
- very fast garbage collectors; and a comprehensive test suite. The
- code is well-written and extensively documented.
- The generated code can be combined with native code written in
- either C or C++, and can be delivered even on platforms which provide
- no native Lisp compiler. Configuration switches permit the creation
- of applications with tiny footprints. The product also provides a
- unique way to visualize the effects of optimizations (such as
- declarations), even for applications which will be delivered on a
- standard Lisp run-time system. The product is actively used to
- deliver widely-distributed industrial applications in the U.S.
- and abroad.
-
- D++ - An advanced software engineering environment, in the early
- stages of development, which provides object-oriented primitives for
- defining and manipulating components of an application, with a back
- end to generate application code in C++ or other conventional
- programming languages. The environment includes an object-oriented
- scripting language with C++-like syntax. A meta-object layer, which
- permits customization of the environment, is also provided.
-
- Natural Language Interface Toolkit - An environment for prototyping,
- developing, and delivering grammar-based applications. Includes tools
- for incrementally specifying augmented context-free grammar rules and
- the associated semantics; a chart parser; interfaces for text-, menu-,
- and voice-based input; a very compact delivery mechanism; and
- diagnostic tools.
-
- dBLISP - A Common Lisp-based library which creates, reads, and writes
- data base files and indices for dBASE, the industry standard
- data base format for microcomputers. Includes well-documented, clean
- source code, and full end-user documentation.
-
- If you would like to receive a bidders' package, please send mail to
- wbrodie@panix.com.
-
- If you might be interested in purchasing a copy of any of the products
- mentioned above, please let me know; I will pass this information along to
- the winning bidder.
-