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The design of an integrated support software system

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Arra Avakian,

Sam Haradhvala,

Bruce KnobeAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Issue 6

Pages 308 - 317

https://doi.org/10.1145/872726.807005

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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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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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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SIGPLAN '82: Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
June 1982
357 pages
ISBN:0897910745
DOI:10.1145/800230
Chairmen:
John R. White,
Frances E. Allen

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 June 1982

Published in SIGPLAN Volume 17, Issue 6

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