Professionals need professional tools. Designers need Photoshop. Webmasters need Dreamweaver. Writers need Word. So what's the tool
every programmer on the entire face of the Earth can't do without? Well, even thought there are over 50 different programming languages and file formats, up to very recently, there was only one tool that could be used to write and edit them, regardless of the format – plain old simple Notepad, installed on every PC in the universe.
As unimpressive and absurd as it may sound, before GridinSoft Notepad was released in 2003, this really was the best tool available. What GridinSoft developers did was to keep the simplicity Notepad offers and add code editing features programmers need. Like customizable syntax highlighting, spell checker (works for 10 different languages simultaneously), console command support, Hex editor, math expression evaluator, LaTeX format, bookmarks, Drag&Drop support and 10 other options lacking in the original Notepad that many programmers need for their coding and editing routine. Plus, GridinSoft Notepad allows programmers to execute scripts and see the results immediately in the Console Output window.
While it sounds boastful and perhaps even arrogant, GridinSoft Notepad is very likely to be the most valuable 1.24 megabytes a programmer can get loaded on a hard-drive. Ever since the program was released, it enjoyed strange cult-like following among coders worldwide, which translated into GridinSoft Notepad being localized to German, French, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Slovak, Croatian, Indonesian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, Korean and Norwegian languages. New localizations are added monthly.
The list of all fifty file formats that can be (and should be) edited with GridinSoft Notepad includes all of these:
MS-DOS batch language, HTML, ASP, SynGen Msg files, Baan 4GL, CA-Clipper, Cache Object script, COAS Product Manager report, C++, Cascading style sheets, Fortran, Borland Form definition, Foxpro, CORBA IDL, INI file, Java, Javascript, ObjectPascal, Modula 3, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, Visual Basic, MS VBScript, x86 assembly language, XML document, UNIX Shell Script, Progress, Standard ML, Modelica, Gembase, Semanta data dictionary, Tcl/Tk, ADSP21xx, KiXtart script, GW-TEL script, TeX, Ruby, AWK, Cobol, Haskell C++, 68HC11 Assembler, HP46, Vrml97/X3D World, DOT Graph Drawing Description, Eiffel, NSIS, Inno Setup Script, SciLab File, Galaxy File, Resource File, LEGO LDraw File.
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