Internal, external, and pragmatic influences: technical perspectives in the development of programming languages
Jacob T. Schwartz · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 2011
This paper reviews key issues likely to shape the design and development of programs and programming languages as efficiency constraints relax and computational power increases. These issues are; (1) the use of the dictions of mathematics to define operations that can be used to achieve user-defined desires and expectations concerning an intended application; (2) techniques for designing and producing the expected results: the use of very-high-level programming languages for prototyping; the development of application-oriented languages; the design of applications using standard operations; and the development of a library of modules which handle substantial fragments of important applications; and (3) a language's usefulness, i.e., its general nature and its user-oriented features. (Author)