Common Prototyping Language

Abstract

Prototyping is the process of writing programs for the purpose of obtaining information prior to constructing a production version. Prototyping is used to increase the probability that the first production version will be satisfactory. It is thus a tool for reducing risk. Prototyping differs from production programming in that efficiency and completeness are often sacrificed in the interests of rapid development and ease of obtaining information. At present there is no widely available language or system designed explicitly to support prototyping. Prototypes are built using conventional implementation languages and software development tools. Recently, DARPA-ISTO indicated its interest in a research and development program leading to a widely applicable and well-engineered, prototyping facility, preferably within four years. Though the primary users of this facility are to come from the Ada community, the facility is to support interoperability between prototypes and multiple implementation environments, particularly Common Lisp. This draft report identifies some of the main technical requirements of such a facility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA239343

Entities

People

  • John McCarthy

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Management Planning And Control
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design