Mar
26
2008
Micro Saint Sharp 2.6
Scientific Computing World, March 26, 2008
SAINT goes back a long way, in modern computing terms. Developed more than a quarter century ago for USAF human factors study, it was FORTRAN based and ran on mainframes. Micro SAINT, designed to run on the IBM personal computers of the 1980s, marked a major step forward in flexibility and usability. Micro Saint Sharp has, over the past few years, taken several steps in further embedding SAINT approaches in current practice by providing a product designed for a Windows environments and based in the C# language. The well established structure of entities travelling through a task and queue network defined by variables, with event and clock triggered value snapshots feeding back into the structure, is conceptually unchanged despite the more efficient methodologies behind it. The current release 2ยท6 is an impressive piece of work; the reviewed copy was the Gold version, which has a few extra tricks…