top priority is to put together applications at short notice and to minimize coding efforts
designed for immediate results during development of technical or scientific applications
no need to write any GUI code or to get into tedious system details
no special developer platform required
easy experimenting when the problem is not yet well understood
write, debug, run, service: All from the same window, effective instantaneously at any time
quick-and-dirty programs
well structured and documented programs with 1000s of lines
easy calls to dynamically linked user-written DLLs
scripts can be chained or run in parallel
most things can be done as in other languages, but there are numerous 1-statement calls to intrinsic functions covering most standard tasks of everyday scientific and engineering tasks like
programmers who prefer to test their ideas on the spot without spending lots of time to learn a new language
familiarity with another language such as Java, Basic, or C is good, but not a prerequisite. Fortran is perfect. You should have no particular problems if HicEst is your first computer language
. Some applications we have heard of are in the fields of
chemical engineering and physical chemistry
numerical simulation and process control
home banking
fuzzy logic based
chemical process control systems
real estate management
data collection and retrieval systems
and of course this XHTML/CSS documentation is completely edited and maintained by a HicEst script. It makes heavy use of the DLG(Edit=thisdocument, ...) and the EDIT(Text=thisdocument, ...) functions.
