The Babel of Application Development Tools+
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چکیده
A major barrier to achieving productivity in the development of all programming applications is the poor quality and excessive number of tools that must be used to get the job done. Host attempts to find, measure, and eliminate productivity bottlenecks have focused on only one of these tools, namely higher-level languages. An example of such an attempt is the recent concern with Structured Programming. It is the thesis of this presentation that in order to produce even a simple program, a programmer must know on the order of a dozen distinct languages. These languages are incompatible, have idiosyncratic syntaxes and mediocre diagnostics, and are often the biggest stumbling blocks in the way of rapid program development. A simple programming example is used to illustrate these points. (Submitted to Datamation Magazine) J( Supported by the Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00515. (Originally prepared for presentation at the SHARE-GUIDE-IBM Application Development Symposium, Monterey, CA., October 15 17, 1979.)
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