The impact of software engineering research on modern progamming languages Export

@article{citeulike:531056, abstract = {Software engineering research and programming language design have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, with traceable impacts since the 1970s, when these areas were first distinguished from one another. This report documents this relationship by focusing on several major features of current programming languages: data and procedural abstraction, types, concurrency, exceptions, and visual programming mechanisms. The influences are determined by tracing references in publications in both fields, obtaining oral histories from language designers delineating influences on them, and tracking cotemporal research trends and ideas as demonstrated by workshop topics, special issue publications, and invited talks in the two fields. In some cases there is conclusive data supporting influence. In other cases, there are circumstantial arguments (i.e., cotemporal ideas) that indicate influence. Using this approach, this study provides evidence of the impact of software engineering research on modern programming language design and documents the close relationship between these two fields.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Ryder, Barbara G. and Soffa, Mary L. and Burnett, Margaret}, citeulike-article-id = {531056}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1101818}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1101815.1101818}, doi = {10.1145/1101815.1101818}, journal = {ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.}, keywords = {history, programming-language, software-engineering}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {431--477}, posted-at = {2009-06-26 16:58:56}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {The impact of software engineering research on modern progamming languages}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1101815.1101818}, volume = {14}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:531056 L3 - citeulike-article-id:531056 N2 - Software engineering research and programming language design have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, with traceable impacts since the 1970s, when these areas were first distinguished from one another. This report documents this relationship by focusing on several major features of current programming languages: data and procedural abstraction, types, concurrency, exceptions, and visual programming mechanisms. The influences are determined by tracing references in publications in both fields, obtaining oral histories from language designers delineating influences on them, and tracking cotemporal research trends and ideas as demonstrated by workshop topics, special issue publications, and invited talks in the two fields. In some cases there is conclusive data supporting influence. In other cases, there are circumstantial arguments (i.e., cotemporal ideas) that indicate influence. Using this approach, this study provides evidence of the impact of software engineering research on modern programming language design and documents the close relationship between these two fields. IS - 4 JF - ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 477 TI - The impact of software engineering research on modern progamming languages PB - ACM Press VL - 14 SP - 431 KW - history KW - programming-language KW - software-engineering AU - Ryder, Barbara AU - Soffa, Mary AU - Burnett, Margaret PY - 2005/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1101815.1101818 ER -