A language facility for designing database-intensive applications
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Developing a natural language interface to complex data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Problems in application software maintenance
Communications of the ACM
Communicating sequential processes
Communications of the ACM
Denotational Semantics: The Scott-Strachey Approach to Programming Language Theory
Denotational Semantics: The Scott-Strachey Approach to Programming Language Theory
Capturing more world knowledge in the requirements specification
ICSE '82 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Software engineering
Some features of the TAXIS data model
VLDB '80 Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 6
Adding regular expressions to Pascal
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
PROTEUS: objectifying the DBMS user interface
OODS '86 Proceedings on the 1986 international workshop on Object-oriented database systems
A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces
VLDB '83 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
The user-definable interface project
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Programming Language researchers increasingly recognize that a high proportion of application development costs involve the interface with users of the application, including various dialogues, input formats, error checking, help and explanation messages, and the like. They also increasingly recognize that maintenance costs tend to overshadow development costs. These two factors even multiply their adverse effects: as the user needs evolve, it is the interface with a system which generally requires the most maintenance. The user relationship is even said to account for about 60 percent of the maintenance problem [Lientz and Swanson 81]. Surprisingly, few programming language constructs are designed to address the area of user interface design. On the contrary, traditional programming language constructs are strongly oriented towards improving programmers' effectiveness in developing the algorithmic and data manipulation aspects of an application. A programmer is basically left to reinvent each time the required procedures to deal with user commands and inputs.