September 1990 - Vol. 33 No. 9
Features
From Washington: EC directives aim for market harmony
The 1992 unification plans for the 12-nation European Community (EC) have surely been among the most dissected blueprints of the year. Politicians ponder trade…
Personal computing: compuvision or teleputer
Historically, the computer and communication industries have been separate, although both worked with electronically encoded information and shared similar technology.…
Introduction—object-oriented design
Object-oriented, a buzzword of the late 1980s, has evolved into an accepted technology that has recognized benefits for the software development process. In its…
Understanding object-oriented: a unifying paradigm
The need to develop and maintain large complex software systems in a competitive and dynamic environment has driven interest in new approaches to software design and…
Implementation benefits of C++ language mechanisms
C + + was designed by Bjarne Stroustrup at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1980s as an extension to the C language, providing data abstraction and object-oriented…
Trellis: turning designs into programs
When designing an object-oriented program, there are several goals to achieve:…
Lessons from the design of the Eiffel libraries
The nature of programming is changing. Most of the software engineering literature still takes for granted a world of individual projects, where the sole aim is to…
Class management for software communities
Object-oriented programming may engender an approach to software development characterized by the large-scale reuse of object classes. Large-scale reuse is the use of a…
Surveying current research in object-oriented design
The state of object-oriented is evolving rapidly. This survey describes what are currently thought to be the key ideas. Although it is necessarily incomplete, it contains…
Concurrent object-oriented programming
Three significant trends have underscored the central role of concurrency in computing. First, there is increased use of interacting processes by individual users, for…
The object-oriented systems life cycle
In software engineering, the traditional description of the software life cycle is based on an underlying model, commonly referred to as the “waterfall” model…
The 1988–89 Taulbee survey report
This report describes the results of a survey of the Forsythe list of computing Departments1, completed in December, 1989. The survey concerns the production and…
Inside risks: a few old coincidences
Computer Puns Considered Harmful: Presented here are two old examples of harmful input sequences that might be called computer puns. Each has a double meaning, depending…