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CH Шаблон:IPAc-en is a proprietary cross-platform C and C++ interpreter and scripting language environment. It was originally designed by Harry H. Cheng as a scripting language for beginners to learn mathematics, computing, numerical analysis (numeric methods), and programming in C/C++. Ch is now developed and marketed by SoftIntegration, Inc., with multiple versions available, including a freely available student edition and CH Professional Edition for Raspberry Pi is free for non-commercial use.

CH can be embedded in C/C++ application programs. It has numerical computing and graphical plotting features. CH is a combined shell and IDE.[1] CH shell combines the features of common shell and C language.[2] ChIDE provides quick code navigation and symbolic debugging. It is based on embedded CH, Scite, and Scintilla.[3][4]

CH is written in C and runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris, QNX, and HP-UX. It supports C90 and major C99 features, but it does not support the full set of C++ features. C99 complex number, IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic, and variable-length array features were supported in CH before they became part of the C99 standard.[5][6][7][8] An article published by Computer Reseller News (CRN) named CH as notable among C-based virtual machines for its functionality and the availability of third-party libraries.[9]

CH has many tool kits that extend its functions. For example, the CH Mechanism Toolkit is used for design and analysis of commonly used mechanisms such as four-bar linkage, five-bar linkage, six-bar linkage, crank-slider mechanism, and cam-follower system.[10] CH Control System Toolkit is used for modeling, the design, and analysis of continuous-time or discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) control systems.[11] Both tool kits include the source code.

CH is now used and integrated into the curriculum by many high schools and universities to teach computing and programming in C/C++.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] CH has been integrated into free C-STEM Studio, a platform for learning computing, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (C-STEM) with robotics. C-STEM Studio is developed by the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM). It offers a curriculum for K-12 students.

CH supports LEGO Mindstorms NXT and EV3, Arduino, Linkbot, Finch Robot, RoboTalk and Raspberry Pi, Pi Zero, and ARM for robot programming and learning.[19][20][21] It can also be embedded into the LabVIEW system design platform and development environment.[22]

Features

CH supports the 1999 ISO C Standard (C99) and C++ classes. It is a superset of C with C++ classes. Several major features of C99 are supported, such as complex numbers, variable length arrays (VLAs), IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic, and generic mathematical functions. The specification for wide characters in Addendum 1 for C90 is also supported.

C++ features available in CH include:

  • Member functions
  • Mixed code and declaration
  • The this -> pointer
  • Reference type and pass-by-reference
  • Function-style type conversion
  • Classes
  • Private/public data and functions in classes. Ch is compatible with C++ in that by default, members of a class definition are assumed to be private until a 'public' declaration is given
  • Static member of class/struct/union
  • Const member functions
  • The new and delete operators
  • Constructors and destructors
  • Polymorphic functions
  • The scope resolution operator ::
  • The I/O functions cout, cerr, and cin with endl
  • Arguments for variadic functions are optional

CH supports classes in C++ with added abilities, including:

  • Classes inside member functions
  • Nested functions with classes
  • Passing member function to argument of pointer-to-function type of functions

CH can interact with existing C/C++ libraries and call C/C++ functions from CH script.[23] As a C/C++ interpreter, CH can be used as a scripting engine and extension language for applications. Pointers to arrays or variables can be passed and shared in both C-compiled and CH scripting contexts. One example of an embedded CH scripting application is Mobile-C, which has been used for collaborative visualization of distributed mesh model.[24][25][26]

CH has a built-in string type (string_t) for automatic memory allocation and de-allocation. It supports shell aliases, history, piping, etc.[27][28]

CH has built-in 2D/3D graphical plotting features and computational arrays for numerical computing. A 2D linear equation of the form b = A*x can be written verbatim in Ch.[29]

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