SHIFT News
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Feb 8 1999.
A new SHIFT Tutorial is available
for new SHIFT programmers. Please see the link in the documentation
page.
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June 17 1998. SHIFT version 3.2 is now available for download. Among the
new features:
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SHIFT now compiles properly without the GUI.
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SHIFT now compiles under IRIX 6.2 with 'cc'.
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The reference manual has been updated to reflect all outstanding changes.
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EXPORT events are now allowed to be of one of two types: OPEN, CLOSED.
See the reference manual for a description.
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External types may be declared to be used in conjunction with the foreign
function interface of SHIFT. See the reference manual for a description
of the syntax and semantics of these types.
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The SETUP clause has been added to the global namespace.
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A new built-in function has been added for run-time 'type' checking. The
function 'components(T)' evaluates to a set of type T containing all the
components that are of type T (or inherited from T). See the reference
manual for further information.
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Several bug fixes.
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Apr 24 1998. The SHIFT Users mailing list is up and running. To subscribe
send a mail to majordomo@path.berkeley.edu. In the body of the mail write
the following:
subscribe shift-users@path.berkeley.edu
Dec 2 1997. The PC
port of SHIFT is available.
Feb 7, 1997. The first Shift users' workshop took place. Presentations
of projects using Shift included:
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Air Traffic Management Systems
Veit Hagenmeyer, John Koo, Yi Ma, George Pappas, David Shim, Claire
Tomlin.
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Material Handling Systems
Carlo Cloet, Martin Krucinsky.
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Automated Highway Systems
Kevin Leung, Dave Gulick, Jin-Gang Yi, Adam Howell.
Some of these projects will soon appear on-line.
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