SALVO: a fourth-generation language for personal computers

  • Authors:

  • Marvin Elder

  • Affiliations:

  • Software Automation, Inc., Dallas, Texas

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '84 Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Personal computer users are generally nontechnical people. Fourth-generation products can be of great assistance to these users, especially to those who have no access to database administrators or other computer professionals. SALVO is a fourth-generation language for personal computers. This product was developed over a three-year period. Since the first working prototype (August 1982), this product has evolved into areas of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly natural-language processing and expert systems. The addition of AI functions to a fourth-generation language represents a departure from most fourth-generation products written for mainframe computers (except INTELLECT). The synergism of this new area of AI research, coupled with relational database management, has proved to be extremely beneficial in assisting end users: they can extract information and generate applications in a much more nonprocedural manner than with more conventional fourth-generation approaches.