The programmer's workbench—a machine for software development
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ICSE '76 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering
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Many people have realized that programming needs more support than a compiler, linker, debugger, and a few other tools. More comprehensive systems have been proposed, built, and (sometimes) used. Although the perfect programming environment is yet to be found, people have widely divergent views of the ideal. This paper neither surveys the field nor describes any single environment, but instead offers some attributes by which programming environments can be classified. It frequently uses the Unix system to illustrate these attributes, and comments on the implications of the Unix system's success for other programming environments.