By Moshé M. Zloof, S. Peter de Jong
Communications of the ACM,
June 1977,
Vol. 20 No. 6, Pages 385-396
10.1145/359605.359615
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The system for business automation (SBA) is a system within which application experts—nonprogrammers—can describe and execute their applications on a computer. The user of SBA views his application as manipulation of information in two-dimensional pictures of tables, business forms, and reports on a display terminal. He can gradually automate this application by giving “examples” to the system of how he manually manipulates the information. The Query-by-Example database language is a subset of the SBA programming language.
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