Challenges and requirements for new application generators

Authors:
Alfonso F. Cardenas;William P. Grafton
Affiliations:
University of California, Los Angeles, California;Continental Airlines, Los Angeles, California
Venue:
AFIPS '82 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference
Year:
1982

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Abstract

The need for application generation as an alternative to the aging programming languages (COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, Pascal, etc.) is put forth. Major technologies that participate in the movement toward application generation are reviewed. A variety of technical problems that plague these individual technologies are identified. The problem of lack of standards in the participating technologies is discussed. A satisfactory application generator (AG) should synthesize the overwhelming variety of services and individual technologies into a cohesive whole. The desired characteristics of an AG are indicated. Last, the resistance of programmers, analysts, and other specialists to embracing a new level of application development beyond handcoding in programming languages is indicated.