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The design of an integrated support software system

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Arra Avakian,

Sam Haradhvala,

Bruce KnobeAuthors Info & Claims

SIGPLAN '82: Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction

Pages 308 - 317

https://doi.org/10.1145/800230.807005

Published: 01 June 1982 Publication History

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This paper describes some of the interesting features of a large integrated support software system. The system was built to support the development, on an IBM 370, of an extremely large Pascal program to be run on a network of Intel 8086 microprocessors. The Pascal program was composed of over 1500 separately compiled components containing over 1,000,000 lines of source code. About 200 technical people were involved in this activity. In a project of this magnitude, integration issues are of overriding importance. There must be all the type checking and managerial control associated with standard Pascal programs, but the Pascal solution of compiling the whole application as one unit is clearly unacceptable. Various pieces must be separately compiled.

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Robbins D(1984)Engineering a high-capacity Pascal compiler for high performanceACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/502949.50290419:6(300-309)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502949.502904
Robbins DVan Deusen MGraham S(1984)Engineering a high-capacity Pascal compiler for high performanceProceedings of the 1984 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction10.1145/502874.502904(300-309)Online publication date: 17-Jun-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502874.502904
Lampson BSchmidt EWhite JLandweber LDemers ATeitelbaum T(1983)Practical use of a polymorphic applicative languageProceedings of the 10th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages10.1145/567067.567090(237-255)Online publication date: 24-Jan-1983
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/567067.567090

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The design of an integrated support software system
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Systems analysis and design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
    2. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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SIGPLAN '82: Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction

June 1982

357 pages

ISBN:0897910745

DOI:10.1145/800230

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 17, Issue 6
Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
June 1982
347 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/872726
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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 01 June 1982

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Robbins D(1984)Engineering a high-capacity Pascal compiler for high performanceACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/502949.50290419:6(300-309)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502949.502904
Robbins DVan Deusen MGraham S(1984)Engineering a high-capacity Pascal compiler for high performanceProceedings of the 1984 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction10.1145/502874.502904(300-309)Online publication date: 17-Jun-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/502874.502904
Lampson BSchmidt EWhite JLandweber LDemers ATeitelbaum T(1983)Practical use of a polymorphic applicative languageProceedings of the 10th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages10.1145/567067.567090(237-255)Online publication date: 24-Jan-1983
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/567067.567090

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