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Rational Software was founded by Paul Levy and Michael Devlin in 1981, with the goal of providing state-of-the-art tools to support modern software engineering practices. It initially focused on the production of code generators and debuggers for popular architectures such as VAX, x86 and Motorola 68000, as well as integrated development environments for the Ada and C++ programming language.
Rational created the Unified Modelling Language (UML) as a tool for specification and design, and it provides a means of specifying, constructing and documenting the object-oriented system. It was developed by Booch, Jacobson and Rumbaugh, and they also developed the Rational Unified Process (RUP) which is a use case-driven and architecture centric iterative and incremental process for software development. Rational also provides a set of tools to support the various software engineering processes.
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The first object-oriented programming language to emerge was Simula-67, which was developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo by Ole Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. This language introduced objects and classes.
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Jacaobson I et al (2005) The unified modelling language, user guide, 2nd edn. Addison Wesley Professional, Reading
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O’Regan, G. (2015). Rational Software. In: Pillars of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21464-1_27
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