Stuart Zweben
Pages 15-16
While international consensus seems assured through the traditional processes of the International Organization of Standardization (ISO), the best known and most powerful standards body, the long time required to make decisions …
Roy Rada
Pages 21-23
In the 1940s, the first research computers worked on numeric data. A few years later, the UNIVAC, was designed for both numeric and alphanumeric data. Over time, technology advances have made other data types economically feasible—text …
Larry Press
Pages 25-31
Cherri M. Pancake
Pages 32-49
Mohamed E. Fayad, Wei-Tek Tsai
Pages 50-53
This article describes some of the lessons learned when a team of 150 developers with a minimal prior exposure to object-oriented (OO) technology undertook a large development project. Team members became proficient in OO design …
William Berg, Marshall Cline, Mike Girou
Pages 54-64
Despite dramatic increases in network and host performance, it remains difficult to design, implement, and reuse communication software for complex distributed systems. Examples of these systems include global personal communication …
Douglas C. Schmidt
Pages 65-74
The object-oriented (OO) paradigm is rapidly gaining acceptance in the software industry. However, the powerful features of this new paradigm also introduce a new set of OO software testing and maintenance problems. The pioneering …
David Kung, Jerry Gao, Pei Hsia, Yasufumi Toyoshima, Chris Chen, Young-Si Kim, Young-Kee Song
Pages 75-87
Object-oriented techniques promise to improve the software design and programming process by providing an application-oriented view of programming while facilitating modification and reuse. Since the software design crisis is …
Charles D. Norton, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Viktor K. Decyk
Pages 88-100
Yen-Ping Shan
Pages 102-104
Smalltalk is a single paradigm language with very simple semantics and syntax for specifying elements of a system and for describing system dynamics [1]. When the language is used to describe an application system, the developer …
Adele Goldberg
Pages 105-107
Information systems are critical to the worldwide insurance business, yet few major insurance companies believe they are well served by their current systems. Increasingly, companies are including Smalltalk as a strategic element …
Jim Adamczyk
Pages 107-109
In a world where global partnerships and rapidly shifting business environments will be the norm, the telecommunications industry stands out for the speed with which both its technology and business processes are being transformed …
Jerrold M. Grochow
Pages 110-111
Over the last 10 years, Smalltalk has moved from the “Parc” to Main Street as a standard object-oriented (OO) fifth generation language (5GL) for enterprise computing. To meet the needs of application developers, Smalltalk environments …
Dave Thomas
Pages 112-114
Smalltalk was originally intended to make the computer more accessible. However, although the language itself is simple, it is becoming common knowledge that becoming truly proficient with the Smalltalk environment is no simple …
Ken Auer
Pages 115-117
The tremendous success of cellular technology has fundamentally changed the way people communicate and prompted the evolution of a new multibillion dollar wireless communications industry. Linking service areas, wireless communications …
Michael Wang, William J. Kettinger
Pages 119-122
The problem with social security numbers today is that some organizations are using these ubiquitous numbers for identification, others are using them for authentication, and still others are using them for both. I call up my …
Simson L. Garfinkel
Page 146
