A.2  Designed for Building Large Business Applications

Sheerpower was designed from the ground up specifically to build large business applications with constantly evolving business rules. To support this, Sheerpower provides:

• Code compiling and linking speeds of over 500,000 source lines per second are typical.
• Code that is designed to work with future releases without any need for change.
• An optimized runtime engine designed for millions of complex operations per second.
• Language constructs that help programmers focus on business rules.

Sheerpower was designed to be easy to write, easy to maintain, and easy to debug. Professional programmers can learn Sheerpower in a matter of hours and master it in a few weeks. Using Sheerpower quickly becomes a lifestyle where they rapidly implement business applications. This frees programmers to focus more on what they need to accomplish and less on how to accomplish it.

Sheerpower is a procedural language. Its logic is easy to follow. Its statements and routines are easy to read. They are designed to be very readable - like reading a story. This reduces code maintenance costs.

Sheerpower's runtime environment is highly scalable and extremely fast, typically much faster than Python or PHP when manipulating string data or performing database operations.