A language-independent programmer's interface
Balzer, Robert M.
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https://doi.org/10.1145/1500175.1500251
Abstract
This paper addresses the general problem of creating a suitable on-line environment for programming. The amount of software, and the effort required to produce it, to support such an on-line environment is very large relative to that needed to produce a programming language, and is largely responsible for the scarcity of such programming environments. The size of this effort was largely responsible for the scrapping of a major language (QA4) as a separate entity and its inclusion instead as a set of extensions in a LISP environment. The few systems which do exist (e.g., LISP, APL, BASIC, and PL/I) have greatly benefited their users and have strongly contributed to the widespread acceptance of the associated language.
Proceedings: Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition
Journal: Association for Computing Machinery