Current Page: NeXtMidas Training Background What is NeXtMidas?
| NeXtMidas History NeXtMidas was started in 1998 by Jeff Schoen, founder of Innovative Computer Engineering (ICE). NeXtMidas attempted to take full advantage of the technology developed during the internet boom of the 1990s NeXtMidas Goals NeXtMidas is intended to be a networked version of the Midas shell written in Java that provides high-performance DSP capabilities in a platform-neutral environment. NeXtMidas is intended to feel "natural" to the X-Midas programmer with similar Macro language and option tree structure (the libraries, of course, will differ). NeXtMidas Facts NeXtMidas is written in Java (with a few auxiliary methods in C). The use of C is limited to terminal interaction and special high-performance data conversion methods. All of these can be disabled allowing NeXtMidas to run using pure Java. The NeXtMidas Macro language is similar to the one used in X-Midas but provides access to any Java function or command. NeXtMidas shares many X-Midas concepts including: option trees, primitives, intrinsics and macros.