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Challenges and requirements for new application generators

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Alfonso F. Cardenas,

William P. GraftonAuthors Info & Claims

AFIPS '82: Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference

Pages 341 - 349

https://doi.org/10.1145/1500774.1500816

Published: 07 June 1982 Publication History

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The need for application generation as an alternative to the aging programming languages (COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, Pascal, etc.) is put forth. Major technologies that participate in the movement toward application generation are reviewed. A variety of technical problems that plague these individual technologies are identified. The problem of lack of standards in the participating technologies is discussed. A satisfactory application generator (AG) should synthesize the overwhelming variety of services and individual technologies into a cohesive whole. The desired characteristics of an AG are indicated. Last, the resistance of programmers, analysts, and other specialists to embracing a new level of application development beyond handcoding in programming languages is indicated.

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Horowitz EKemper ANarasimhan BDuncan KRoth AMikelskas B(1984)Application generatorsProceedings of the 1984 annual conference of the ACM on The fifth generation challenge10.1145/800171.809609(94-101)Online publication date: 1-Jan-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800171.809609
Grochow J(1982)Application generatorsProceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference10.1145/1500774.1500822(389-392)Online publication date: 7-Jun-1982
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1500774.1500822

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Horowitz EKemper ANarasimhan BDuncan KRoth AMikelskas B(1984)Application generatorsProceedings of the 1984 annual conference of the ACM on The fifth generation challenge10.1145/800171.809609(94-101)Online publication date: 1-Jan-1984
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800171.809609
Grochow J(1982)Application generatorsProceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference10.1145/1500774.1500822(389-392)Online publication date: 7-Jun-1982
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1500774.1500822

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