A history of the history of programming languages

Bergin, Thomas J.

doi:10.1145/1230819.1230841

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“…Innovations in general-purpose programming languages have over the past decades allowed software designers to increasingly focus on details of the problem at hand rather than on the idiosyncrasies of the supporting computer technology (Bergin and Gibson 1996). Although this development has allowed software designers to become increasingly productive, patterns represent complementary opportunities by offering domain specific, high-level language constructs that represent solutions within a particular problem setting.…”

Section: Network-of-patterns As Response To Technological Changementioning

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Managing Technological Change in the Digital Age: The Role of Architectural Frames

Henfridsson

Mathiassen

Svahn

2014

Journal of Information Technology

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Abstract. Inspired by Herbert Simon's notion of nearly decomposable systems, researchers have examined modularity as a powerful approach to manage technological change in product innovation. We articulate this approach as the hierarchy-of-parts architecture and explain how it emphasizes decomposition of a design into loosely coupled parts and subsequent aggregation of these into an industrial product. To realize the scale benefits of modularity, firms successively freeze design specifications before production and therefore only allow limited windows of functionality design and redesign. This makes it difficult to take advantage of the increased speed by which digitized products can be developed and modified.To address this problem, we draw on Christopher Alexander's notion of design patterns to introduce a complementary approach to manage technological change that is resilient to digital technology. We articulate this approach as the network-of-patterns architecture and explain how it emphasizes generalization of ideas into patterns and subsequent specialization of patterns for different design purposes. In response to the increased digitization of industrial products, we demonstrate the value of complementing hierarchy-of-parts thinking with network-of-patterns thinking through a case study of infotainment architecture at an automaker.As a result, we contribute to the literature on managing products in the digital age: we highlight the properties of digital technology that increase the speed by which digitized products can be redesigned; we offer the notion of architectural frames and propose hierarchy-of-parts and networkof-patterns as frames to support innovation of digitized products; and, we outline an agenda for future research that reconsiders the work of Simon and Alexander as well as their followers to address key challenges in innovating digitized products.

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Section: Network-of-patterns As Response To Technological Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Technological Change in the Digital Age: The Role of Architectural Frames

Henfridsson

Mathiassen

Svahn

2014

Journal of Information Technology

212

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“…Kaplan (2010) explained that there are approximately 2,000 to 3,000 well known programming languages. Bergin (2007) noted that there are more than 8,500 programming languages in use at the time of publishing his study. Markstrum (2010) also commented on the large number of programming languages in use but did not specify a number.…”

Section: Selecting a Programming Language To Teachthen And Nowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers believe the History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conferences demonstrate the number of programming languages popular in academia (Bergin, 2007;Bergin & Gibson, 1996). The HOPL conference is held for teachers and professors to present the newest programming languages being used in academia.…”

Section: Selecting a Programming Language To Teachthen And Nowmentioning

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“…Table 1 below shows the date that HOPL conferences took place and the number of programming languages that were popular at the time of the conference. (Bergin, 2007;Bergin & Gibson, 1996;Wexelblat, 1978). Although the programming languages that are popular in academia are limited in number (the table above shows 38 languages) they still represent a significant number of programming languages that provide special functions being used at some academic institutions (Henriksen & Kölling, 2004;Utting, Cooper, Kölling, Maloney, & Resnick, 2010).…”

Section: Selecting a Programming Language To Teachthen And Nowmentioning

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A Debate over the Teaching of a Legacy Programming Language in an Information Technology (IT) Program

Ali

Smith

2014

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This paper presents a debate between two faculty members regarding the teaching of the legacy programming course (COBOL) in a Computer Science (CS) program. Among the two faculty members, one calls for the continuation of teaching this language and the other calls for replacing it with another modern language. Although CS programs are notorious for continuous updates (and hence debates over the updates) of their courses, but the teaching of COBOL programming language has sparked many debates that have been on-going for years. Each side of the debate provides evidences that support their position.This study, although, provides a debate over the same topic but it is different from ongoing debates because it balances the views expressed by both sides of the debates. This in turn shows the difficulty encountered by various departments when making a decision about COBOL. We are presenting in the paper a thorough literature review regarding both sides of views. We are also incorporating in this debate the lessons we learned from our long experience in this field. Thus, we will present our conclusion and recommendation in this paper based on the literature review and on our experience in this field. Our goal from writing this paper is two faceted: first, to present opinions about each side of the position regarding the teaching of COBOL, and, second, to reach a consensus regarding the continuation of teaching this programming language (or for this matter replacing it with another language).

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“…Two conferences on the history of programming languages, HOPL I (Wexelblat, 1981) and HOPL II (Bergin & Gibson, 1996) provide useful histories of many languages. (Horowitz, 1983) anthologizes many classic papers on programming language design.…”

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Essentials of programming languages

Friedman

Haynes

Wand

2008

Choice Reviews Online

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A history of the history of programming languages

Abstract: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." ---Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert Hooke, Feb. 15, 1676

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Managing Technological Change in the Digital Age: The Role of Architectural Frames

Managing Technological Change in the Digital Age: The Role of Architectural Frames

A Debate over the Teaching of a Legacy Programming Language in an Information Technology (IT) Program

Essentials of programming languages

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