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A structural view of the Cedar programming environment (1986)
| Venue: | ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems |
| Citations: | 120 - 3 self |
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@ARTICLE{Swinehart86astructural,
author = {Daniel C. Swinehart and Polle T. Zellweger and Richard J. Beach and Robert B. Hagmann},
title = {A structural view of the Cedar programming environment},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems},
year = {1986},
volume = {8},
pages = {419--490}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the Cedar programming environment, focusing on its overall structure-that is, the major components of Cedar and the way they are organized. Cedar supports the development of programs written in a single programming language, also called Cedar. Its primary purpose is to increase the productivity of programmers whose activities include experimental pro-gramming and the development of prototype software systems for a high-performance personal computer. The paper emphasizes the extent to which the Cedar language, with run-time support, has influenced the organization, flexibility, usefulness, and stability of the Cedar environment. It high-lights the novel system features of Cedar, including automatic storage management of dynamically allocated typed values, a run-time type system that provides run-time access to Cedar data type definitions and allows interpretive manipulation of typed values, and a powerful deuice-independent imaging model that supports the user interface facilities. Using these discussions to set the context, the paper addresses the language and system features and the methodologies used to facilitate the integration of Cedar applications. A comparison of Cedar with other programming environments further identifies areas where Cedar excels and areas where work remains to be done.
Keyphrases
cedar programming environment structural view typed value major component environment identifies area powerful deuice-independent imaging model primary purpose cedar language cedar environment cedar data type definition user interface facility novel system feature high-performance personal computer run-time support overall structure-that system feature run-time type system prototype software system cedar application cedar excels run-time access interpretive manipulation automatic storage management single programming language
