A Program Design Language for software engineering

  • Authors:
  • Mark Woodman

  • Affiliations:
  • Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

Program Design Languages have been used for some time in the informal description of software and as an aid to top-down program construction. In general, such languages have not been amenable to the automatic generation of project management information (such as module interconnection details and complexity measurements) useful in the software engineering process. This paper reviews the characteristics of existing program design languages and suggests a new notation and tool for its manipulation.