PISA

A Programming System for Interactive Production of Application Software

R. Marty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 298 Seiten

1981
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
9783540108252 (ISBN)

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This report introduces the programming system PISA intendei for the interactive production of application software. The heart of the programming system is a new programming language, also called PISA. An interactive environment for this language permits the creation, test, maintenance, and usage of PISA programs in a real-time dialogue fashion. Both the programming language and its interactive environment are described without any reference to a specific implementation. Together, they form a well defined programming system whose components interact harmoniously. The programming system PISA is dedicated to application software production. This implies that production of system software and online-control programs is not a goal of PISA. Furthermore, it means that PISA must meet several requirements as they arise from commercial application software production, the most stringent ones being economy, availability, and compatibility: In the long term the overall cost of software production and usage with such a programming system must be less than with conventional means, the programming system must be available or implementable on a wide range of computer systems currently used, and existing data must be accessible in its actual physical representation. The definition of PISA is given in a heavily annotated form in this report: Examples for the use of single componer.ts as well as for the entire system are presented, most of the lan~uage constructs and system facilities are commented on briefly, and the implications of the programming system's design on implementability and portability issues are discussed.

Section A explains the reasons for defining a comprehensive programming system and gives the design principles for an interactive programming language as well as for an interactive programming system..- Section B defines the programming language PISA, the predefined routines, and the interfaces between a PISA program and its environment..- Section C describes the syntax and the semantics of a PISA session providing the interactive environment for creating, testing, maintaining, and using PISA programs..- Section D shows how the programming system PISA can be employed in several typical areas of applications. Particular attention is paid to the use of the PISA interfaces..- Section E gives some guidelines for an implementation of PISA and suggests efficient run-time code structures for several language constructs and system components..- Section F focuses on the portability aspects of PISA programs: Following a discussion of design aspects that make PISA a highly portable language, a portability checker for PISA programs and a validation system for PISA implementations is proposed..

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.1981
Reihe/Serie	Informatik-Fachberichte
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 298 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
Schlagworte	Design • Dialog (EDV) • Pisa (EDV) • programming • structured analysis • Testing • Validation
ISBN-13	9783540108252 / 9783540108252
Zustand	Neuware