Komodo is an award-winning, professional (IDE) for dynamic languages. It is published by software firm ActiveState, a division of Sophos. An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as an integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment) is computer software to help computer programmers develop software. ... In computer science, a dynamic programming language is a kind of programming language in which programs can change their structure as they run: functions may be introduced or removed, new classes of objects may be created, new modules may appear. ... Sophos is a company that specialises in protecting businesses with anti-virus software and products against spam. ...

Komodo offers advanced support for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows. It is built on the Mozilla platform. Perl, (also backronymed as Practical Extraction and Report Language, see below) is an interpreted procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall. ... PHP is an open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. ... Python is an interpreted programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. ... Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. ... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ... An X-Ray image of the sun. ... Microsoft Windows refers to a series of operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ... Mozilla is a computer term that has had many different uses, though all of them have been related to Netscape Communications Corporation and its related application software. ...

Komodo's customizable language-aware editor and extensible workspace assist the developer with a supportive yet powerful environment, including source code control integration (CVS, Perforce, and Subversion), web technologies support (CGI, XML, and XSLT), a powerful regular expression toolkit, and comprehensive debugging support. A source code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs by programmers. ... The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, implements a version control system: it keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, typically the implementation of a software project, and allows several (potentially widely separated) developers to collaborate. ... Perforce is a commercial Revision Control (RC) system. ... Subversion (also known as svn, the name of its command-line tool) is a version control system designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS, which is considered to have many deficiencies. ... Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an important World Wide Web technology that enables a client web browser to request data from a program executed on the Web server. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ... ... A regular expression (abbreviated as regexp, regex, or regxp, with plural forms regexps, regexes, or regexen) is a string that describes or matches a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected. ...

External links

ActiveState website http://www.activestate.com