A Survey of Program Design Languages (PDLs)
Brian A. Nejmeh, Herbert E. Dunsmore · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 1985
The need to improve software productivity and reliability has become an area of increasing importance to the software engineering community.During the early phases of the software life cycle, there is a strong need to emphasize the usc of tools which provide a representation of the program structure that can be easily understood and modified.Thus, a significant usage of Program Design Languages (PDLs) as a design tool in practical environments has surfaced in recent years.This paper discusses the desired characteristics of such a design tool and surveys a representative sample of existing program design languages.Finally, a new POL Environmen~is proposed for fur~her consideration.