• 1982

Company Description

Abraxas Software has been in business developing software tools for programmers since 1982. They are incorporated in the state of Oregon. Their marketing plan has been to be a provider of high quality language development and analysis tools. Abraxas Software is best known for two products. The first is the professional language development tool PCYACC which has been on the market since 1984, PCYACC is primarily used to develop embedded languages in third party products using languages such as SQL or SGML. The significance of PCYACC is that it includes Language engines for most common languages in source code form without royalty charges. Secondly, there is CodeCheck which was introduced in 1986 and is an expert system which can analyze the C and C++ programming languages and provide automatic quality assurance validation for corporate and military environments. CodeCheck is a fully programmable expert system and can be tailored for validating product specifications, computing most metric algorithms, and enforcing corporate coding standards.