TESTERS SOUGHT WITH ALACRITY!
ANNOUNCING the 3.1 testing release of the XFORMS CALCULATOR. I WAS going
to say the following about it:
. You can execute perl scripts in a computation
. You can add constants to a new 'Constants' menu
. It looks a bit better
. It has some more short-cuts.
But my Marketing Director saw that and nearly feinted. This is what HE
wants me to say:
. STARTLING NEW TECHNOLOGY allows the execution of perl scripts as
part of a computation - YES the calculator is now INFINITELY
EXTENSIBLE!!!
<well, yes, to a degree - but startling??? infinitely???>
. AMAZING increases in productivity acheived with the addition of
a user-amendable menu of physical and mathematical constants -
YES the calculator is now CUSTOMIZABLE!!!
<oh cummON - you can change ONE menu!!! Thats hardly
CUSTOMIZABLE!! And productivity??? Only if you need to
type in Pi a million times a day!!>.
. FANTASTIC new look and feel
<er, it looks a bit better>
. INCREDIBLE usability enhancements
<um, there are some more shortcuts>
Ooooo I hate marketing hype!!! Anyway, in addition, the recent 3.0 testing
release added:
. Comprehensive Copy and Paste
. 32-bit binary number manipulation
. POSSIBLY 64-bit Hex number manipulation on 64-bit architectures
It is available from:
ftp://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/pub/xforms/Contrib/xfrmcalc.3.1.tgz
I think it is stable, but PLEASE pick up this version AND TEST IT
FOR ME to prove me right - or, er, wrong!!
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