Software and the future of programming languages.
Although software is the key enabler of the global information infrastructure, the amount and extent of software in use in the world today are not widely understood, nor are the programming languages and paradigms that have been used to create the software. The vast size of the embedded base of existing software and the increasing costs of software maintenance, poor security, and limited functionality are posing significant challenges for the software R&D community.
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. aho@cs.columbia.edu
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D005544:Forecasting; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards