James Maurer
Page 5
Rosalie Steier
Pages 11-12
Peter J. Denning
Pages 15-16
John R. White
Pages 19-20
The 1992 unification plans for the 12-nation European Community (EC) have surely been among the most dissected blueprints of the year. Politicians ponder trade agreements, economists refigure potential revenues, and media attention …
Diane Crawford
Pages 21-24
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 26-28
Historically, the computer and communication industries have been separate, although both worked with electronically encoded information and shared similar technology. The regulations that kept computing and communication apart …
Larry Press
Pages 29-36
The need to develop and maintain large complex software systems in a competitive and dynamic environment has driven interest in new approaches to software design and development. The problems with the classical waterfall model …
Tim Korson, John D. McGregor
Pages 40-60
C + + was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1980s as an extension to the C language, providing data abstraction and object-oriented programming facilities. C + + provides a natural syntactic …
David Jordan
Pages 61-64
When designing an object-oriented program, there are several goals to achieve:
The program should accurately model the real-world objects to be represented. This leads to a program that is easier to understand and therefore
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Michael Kilian
Pages 65-67
The nature of programming is changing. Most of the software engineering literature still takes for granted a world of individual projects, where the sole aim is to produce specific software systems in response to particular requirements …
Bertrand Meyer
Pages 68-88
Object-oriented programming may engender an approach to software development characterized by the large-scale reuse of object classes. Large-scale reuse is the use of a class not just by its original developers, but by other
…
Simon Gibbs, Eduardo Casais, Oscar Nierstrasz, X. Pintado, Dennis Tsichritzis
Pages 90-103
The state of object-oriented is evolving rapidly. This survey describes what are currently thought to be the key ideas. Although it is necessarily incomplete, it contains both academic and industrial efforts and describes work …
Rebecca J. Wirfs-Brock, Ralph E. Johnson
Pages 104-124
Three significant trends have underscored the central role of concurrency in computing. First, there is increased use of interacting processes by individual users, for example, application programs running on X windows. Second …
Gul Agha
Pages 125-141
In software engineering, the traditional description of the software life cycle is based on an underlying model, commonly referred to as the “waterfall” model (e.g., [4]). This model initially attempts to discretize the identifiable …
Brian Henderson-Sellers, Julian M. Edwards
Pages 142-159
Computer Puns Considered Harmful: Presented here are two old examples of harmful input sequences that might be called computer puns. Each has a double meaning, depending upon context.Xerox PARC's pioneering WYSI-WYG editor BRAVO …
Peter G. Neumann
Page 202
Object-oriented, a buzzword of the late 1980s, has evolved into an accepted technology that has recognized benefits for the software development process. In its progression from a purely procedural approach, software development …
John D. McGregor, Tim Korson
Page 38
This report describes the results of a survey of the Forsythe list of computing Departments
1, completed in December, 1989. The survey concerns the production and employment of Ph.D.s that graduated in 1988-89
2 and the faculty …
David Gries, Dorothy Marsh
Pages 160-169
