The objective-C environment: past, present, and future

Author

Cox, Brad J.

fYear

1988

fDate

Feb. 29 1988-March 3 1988

Firstpage

166

Lastpage

169

Abstract

The Objective-C environment, a growing collection of tools and reusable components (Software-ICs) for large-scale production system-building is discussed. Its goal is to make it possible for its users to build software systems in the way that hardware engineers build theirs, by reusing Software-ICs supplied by a marketplace in generic components rather than by building everything from scratch. The environment is based on conventional technology (C and Unix-style operating systems), which it includes and extends. The extensions presently include a complied and an interpreted implementation of Objective-C (an object-oriented programming language based on C) and several libraries of reusable components (ICpaks).<>

Keywords

C language; programming environments; software engineering; ICpaks; Software-ICs; generic components; large-scale production system-building; object-oriented programming language; objective-C environment; operating systems; reusable components; Data structures; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Object oriented programming; Operating systems; Power system reliability; Production systems; Productivity; Prototypes; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '88. Thirty-Third IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0828-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1988.4852

Filename

4852