article

Free access

A very high level programming language for data processing applications

Authors:

Michael Hammer,

Vincent J. Kruskal,

Irving WladawskyAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 20, Issue 11

Pages 832 - 840

https://doi.org/10.1145/359863.359886

Published: 01 November 1977 Publication History

Abstract

Application development today is too labor-intensive. In recent years, very high-level languages have been increasingly explored as a solution to this problem. The Business Definition Language (BDL) is such a language, one aimed at business data processing problems. The concepts in BDL mimic those which have evolved through the years in businesses using manual methods. This results in three different sublanguages or components: one for defining the business forms, one for describing the business organization, and one for writing calculations.

References

[1]

CODASYL Language Structure Group. An information algebra, phase I report. Comm. ACM 5, 4 (April 1962), 190-204.

Digital Library

[2]

Cougar, J.D. Evolution of business system analysis techniques. Computing Surveys 5, 3 (Sept. 1973), 167-198.

Digital Library

[3]

Dennis, J. First version of a data flow procedure language. Colloque Sur La Programmation, Paris, April 1975.

Digital Library

[4]

Hershey, E.A., et al. PSL/II Language Specifications, Ver. 1.0. ISDOS Working Paper 68, Dept. of Indust. and Oper. Eng., U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 1973.

[5]

Howe, W.G., Kruskal, V.J., and Wladawsky, I. A new approach for customizing business applications. Res. Rep. RC 5474, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, N.Y., July 1975.

[6]

Howe, W.G., Kruskai, V.J., Leavenworth, B.M., Lewis, C., and Wladawsky, I. The preliminary definition of the Document Flow Component of the Business Definition Language. Res. Rep. RC 5204, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Jan. 1975.

[7]

Kosinski, P.R. A data flow programming language. Res. Rep. RC 4264, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, N.Y., March 1973.

[8]

Kruskal, V.J. An editor for parametric programs. Res. Rep. RC 6070, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, N.Y., July 1976.

[9]

Kruskal, V.J., and Howe, W.G. Preliminary definition of the Forms Definition Component of the Business Definition Language. Res. Rep. RC 5164, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Dec. 1974.

[10]

Kruskal, V.J., and Howe, W.G. The formal definition of the Document Transformation Component of the Business Definition Language. Res. Rep. RC 5191, Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Dec. 1974.

[11]

Leavenworth, B.B., and Sammett, J.E. An overview of nonprocedural languages. Proc. Symp. on Very High Level Languages, SIGPLAN Notices (ACM) 9, 4 (April 1974), 1-12.

Digital Library

[12]

Mikelsons, M. Computer assisted application definition. Conf. Rec. Second ACM Symp. on Principles of Programming Languages, Palo Alto, Jan. 1975, pp. 233-242.

Digital Library

[13]

Proceedings, Symposium on Very High Level Languages. SIG- PLAN Notices (ACM) 9, 4 (April 1974), 1-132.

[14]

Teichroew, D. A survey of.languages for stating requirements for computer-based information systems. Proc. AFIPS 1972 FJCC, AFIPS Press, Montvale, N.J., pp. 1203-1224.

[15]

Wladawsky, I. The Mentor for Business Applications (MBA): a natural language automatic programming system. Privately circulated manuscript, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., Yorktown Heights, N.Y., May 1975.

Cited By

Nishikawa HShimada KTaniguchi ITomiyama H(2019)Energy-aware scheduling of malleable fork-join tasks under a deadline constraint on heterogeneous multicoresACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340916:3(57-62)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373409
Balsini APannocchi LCucinotta T(2019)Modeling and simulation of power consumption and execution times for real-time tasks on embedded heterogeneous architecturesACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340816:3(51-56)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373408
Slimani CRubini SBoukhobza J(2019)HyMADACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340716:3(45-50)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373407
Show More Cited By

Recommendations

On extending Fortran control structures to facilitate structured programming

A number of preprocessors and other extensions of Fortran have been implemented recently, aimed at adding "disciplined" control structures to the language. In spite of wide variations in the details of these dialects, many common features can be ...
A data-flow language for specifying business data processing applications
FPCA '81: Proceedings of the 1981 conference on Functional programming languages and computer architecture

A high level specification language called Business Data-Flow Language (BDFL) based on the data-flow model of computation is described in this paper. A translator to convert BDFL specifications into COBOL programs has been implemented. A novel feature ...
Some high level language constructs for data of type relation

For the extension of high level languages by data types of mode relation, three language constructs are proposed and discussed: a repetition statement controlled by relations, predicates as a generalization of Boolean expressions, and a constructor for ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

Copyright © 1977 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 01 November 1977

Published in CACM Volume 20, Issue 11

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

92
Total Citations
View Citations
1,196
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)180
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)16

Reflects downloads up to 22 Sep 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Nishikawa HShimada KTaniguchi ITomiyama H(2019)Energy-aware scheduling of malleable fork-join tasks under a deadline constraint on heterogeneous multicoresACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340916:3(57-62)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373409
Balsini APannocchi LCucinotta T(2019)Modeling and simulation of power consumption and execution times for real-time tasks on embedded heterogeneous architecturesACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340816:3(51-56)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373408
Slimani CRubini SBoukhobza J(2019)HyMADACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340716:3(45-50)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373407
Agarwal UAshokbhai VBloom GMauderer CSherrill J(2019)Comparison of file systems in RTEMSACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340616:3(39-44)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373406
Abeni LBalsini ACucinotta T(2019)Container-based real-time scheduling in the Linux kernelACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340516:3(33-38)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373405
Brondolin RFerroni MSantambrogio M(2019)Performance-aware load shedding for monitoring events in container based environmentsACM SIGBED Review10.1145/3373400.337340416:3(27-32)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373400.3373404
Feyisetan OSimperl E(2019)Beyond Monetary IncentivesACM Transactions on Social Computing10.1145/33217002:2(1-31)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3321700
Cho JRager SO’Donovan JAdali SHorne B(2019)Uncertainty-based False Information Propagation in Social NetworksACM Transactions on Social Computing10.1145/33110912:2(1-34)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3311091
Yang JWang CZhao QJiang BLv ZSangaiah A(2018)Marine surveying and mapping system based on Cloud Computing and Internet of ThingsFuture Generation Computer Systems10.1016/j.future.2018.02.03285(39-50)Online publication date: Aug-2018
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.02.032
Boer PBernstein A(2016)PPLibACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology10.1145/28973677:4(1-20)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2897367
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Article

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Issue’s Table of Contents