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9783540657729
Research into Fully Integrated Data Environments (FIDE) has the goal of substantially improving the quality of application systems while reducing the cost of building & maintaining them. Application systems invariably involve the long-term storage of data over months or years. Much unnecessary complexity obstructs the construction of these systems when conventional databases, file systems, operating systems, communication systems, & programming languages are used. This complexity limits the sophistication of the systems that can be built, generates operational & usability problems, & deleteriously impacts both reliability & performance. This book reports on the work of researchers in the Esprit FIDE projects to design & develop a new integrated environment to support the construction & operation of such persistent application systems. It reports on the principles they employed to design it, the prototypes they built to test it, & their experience using it.Atkinson, Malcolm P. is the author of 'Fully Integrated Data Environments Persistent Programming Languages, Object Stores, and Programming Environments' with ISBN 9783540657729 and ISBN 354065772X.
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