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Intentional software

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Charles Simonyi,

Magnus Christerson,

Shane CliffordAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 41, Issue 10

Pages 451 - 464

https://doi.org/10.1145/1167515.1167511

Published: 16 October 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Wysiwyg editors simplified document creation by separating the document contents from the looks and by automating the re-application of the looks to changing contents. In the same way Intentional Software simplifies software creation by separating the software contents in terms of their various domains from the implementation of the software and by enabling automatic re-generation of the software as the contents change. This way, domain experts can work in parallel with programmers in their respective areas of expertise; and the repeated intermingling can be automated. Intentional Software is supported by a Domain Workbench tool where multiple domains can be defined, created, edited, transformed and integrated during software creation. Key features include a uniform representation of multiple interrelated domains, the ability to project the domains in multiple editable notations, and simple access for a program generator.

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Index Terms

Intentional software
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 41, Issue 10

Proceedings of the 2006 OOPSLA Conference

October 2006

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DOI:10.1145/1167515

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OOPSLA '06: Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
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