As a language, CASL is similar to PASCAL with Object-oriented features. The CASL Software Development Kit (SDK) includes a GUI forms editor, IDE , and Compiler . CASL applications can either be run as interpreted applications on the target device (using a small helper Binary ) or compiled directly to native code (CASLpro). One of its key selling points was that the same source could be compiled to either Palm or PocketPC without changing code ("write once, run either").
In July 2005, CASLsoft announced they were discontinuing support for CASL and releasing it as Freeware , with version 4.2 being the last official release. However, a month later Wagware, Inc. announced it was purchasing CASL and continuing to release it as commercial software. It is still free to be used for non-commercial applications though. Version 4.2 was released on 24 October2005 .
