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Toward a persistent object base

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Advanced Programming Environments

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To better understand the needs of future programming environments, two current technologies that support persistant data in programming environments are considered: file systems and data base systems. This paper presents a set of weaknesses present in these current technologies. These weaknesses can be viewed as a checklist of issues to be considered when evaluating or designing programming environments.

This work was sponsored by the Department of Defense. The views and conclusions contained in this paper are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.

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Nestor, J.R. (1987). Toward a persistent object base. In: Conradi, R., Didriksen, T.M., Wanvik, D.H. (eds) Advanced Programming Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17189-4_108

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