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Procedure calls are the assembly language of software interconnection: Connectors deserve first-class status

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Software designers compose systems from components written in some programming language. They regularly describe systems using abstract patterns and sophisticated relations among components. However, the configuration tools at their disposal restrict them to composition mechanisms directly supported by the programming language. To remedy this lack of expressiveness, we must elevate the relations among components to first-class entities of the system, entitled to their own specifications and abstractions.

This research was supported by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Institute (which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense) and by a grant from Siemens Corporate Research. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies of any of the sponsors.

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    Mary Shaw

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Shaw, M. (1996). Procedure calls are the assembly language of software interconnection: Connectors deserve first-class status. In: Lamb, D.A. (eds) Studies of Software Design. WSSD 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1078. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030517

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