"Systems Languages: Management's Key to Controlled Software Evolution"
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Description: Paper by Gary Kildall presented at WESCON, 1974 Discussion of the advantages of PL/M over assembler, optimization improvement of various PL/M compilers using Quicksort example program.
- "Systems Languages: Management's Key to Controlled Software Evolution" Gary Kildall Proceedings of the 1974 western electronics show and convention (WESCON), September 1974 ("1974 WESCON Technical Papers", Volume 18, Session 19/2) (Retyped by Emmanuel ROCHE.) Abstract -------- Current industry trends forecast widespread use of microcomputers to simplify the design, development, and manufacture of many digital electronics products. The effects of microcomputer software design upon the production cycle is presented, emphasizing the necessity for well-organized software systems. High-level systems languages are introduced as an aid in software organization, using Intel's PL/M as a specific example. Introduction ------------ The general availability of the low-cost microcomputer, or "CPU on a chip", is undoubtedly the greatest single breakthrough in digital design technology in this decade. Although relatively inexpensive general-purpose computers have been packaged as end-user oriented minicomputers for several years, it is now economically feasible to design-in a microcomputer set into the heart of a digital system produced in large quantities. Though only recently introduced, microcomputers have been applied to a wide spectrum of digital processing, from simple device controllers through sophisticated word-processing systems. In fact, the ability to treat a microprocessor as simply another relatively inexpensive component has led to simplification of many current product designs, and opened the door to a vast array of digital applications limited only by one's imagination. Simply stated, the microcomputer allows us to economically substitute programming for wiring. Although there are tremendous savings in software development when compared with hardware breadboarding, there are also inherent difficulties in controlling the evolution of a software-based product. Control over software evolution becomes especially important in the more comprehensive microcomputer applica
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