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A software development system based on a macroprocessor
Author(s) -
Barcucci Elena,
Pelacani Gianluca
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380140604
Subject(s) - computer science , debugging , programming language , software engineering , set (abstract data type) , software , software development , development environment , service (business) , operating system , economy , economics
In this paper a system for software development is described. This system consists of a general‐purpose macroprocessor and a set of service programs. The macroprocessor has been planned to work in a conversational environment and to this purpose a set of utilities has been inserted to aid the editing and the debugging of the macrodefinitions. Indeed the system allows the user to select, by means of commands, the flow of the operations to be executed and to choose when and how any program has to be expanded. The macroprocessor is easy to use and it is suitable to generate codes for both high‐level languages and assembler languages.