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Aculab Simplifies C Programming
By Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-12-16
When Aculab introduced its AMS Server a few months ago, it intuitively knew that the ability to create telephony-based applications in less time-and for less money-would be a concept that would be readily embraced by various developer communities.
By allowing developers to write in more pervasive C-Sharp (C#) and Python, rather than the complex C and C++ languages that are commonplace in the telecoms sector, AMS Server is estimated by some to speed up development time two fold.
Aculab put this concept to a test recently when it invited several developers to use AMS Server and its high-level APIs for Python and C# to build and demonstrate a customised interactive voice response application (IVR) - all within one hour. The participants ranged from programmers with extensive experience in these languages to technically savvy sales people with limited or no programming history. The result - each individual or team successfully built and demoed a working system within the time limit.
"While we did provide a very basic sample template, and the results varied widely, based on the programming expertise of the individuals, we were nonetheless extremely pleased that every individual and team successfully met the challenge," said Chris Loutsaris, Aculab's Professional Services Team Leader
"The challenge reinforced our belief that AMS Server offers developers very practical benefits in terms of reducing both time to market and development costs as a whole."
High-level languages such as Python and C# are used extensively in the development of business-centric applications worldwide. Traditionally, developers of these applications look to outside resources to integrate telephony-based functionalities into an application, primarily because most developers do not have the time to learn the more complex C and C++ languages. AMS Server bridges the gap by presenting telephony capabilities to developers through an easy-to-use API in the language they are most comfortable with.
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