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From: franklin@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Katherine Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Aranda (was Arenda)
Message-ID: <664@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 22:00:53 GMT
References: <1523@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Reply-To: franklin@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Katherine Franklin)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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In article <1523@cmx.npac.syr.edu> pcossenb@rodan.acs.syr.edu writes:
>I was reading in the most recent MacTutor - May 89 Letters section. About a new
>tool called Arenda that a lets you automagically generate a flow diagram and
>does other automatic documentation handling features. Apparently people are
>drooling over being able to beta test it. Has anyone else heard more about it?

Aranda is well described in MacTutor (May 89 Letters). For others who have
missed the article, Aranda is the product of Soft-SET Technologies of
Vancouver, Canada, and provides a compiler specific utility for source code
management, analysis, design and programming.  The basic approach is to 
provide the means of both top-down and bottom-up system support (top-down
for systems under control and bottom-up to help you get them under control),
and to observe the system at various levels of detail.

It includes the ability to display graphical or textual representations of 
the source code (with folding) and allows you to attach documentation that
floats with the items that you are documenting for easy update and
referencing. The system is completely interactive and any changes made to 
any of the representations are reflected throughout the system. Analysis 
tools include the ability to locate calls and variable use, provide structure 
charts for the class hierarchy, uses relationship...to name but a few. 

The system will beta test with the Pascal (MPW and Lightspeed) and C and
will follow up with Cobol, PL1 and C++.  All of this, and decent
response time too !

Aranda is being introduced this week at the Apple Developer's Conference this 
week in San Jose, CA.

I have alpha tested this product, and I will be working on this product 
in the next few months as part of my Master's thesis, both developing and 
testing the product.  The company can be contacted at (604) 734-1622 or 
AppleLink CDA 0380, or through myself, for more information.


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Katherine Franklin			franklin@uvicctr.uvic.ca
University of Victoria			franklin@uvunix.bitnet
Victoria, BC, Canada