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No one doubts the enormous benefits that open-architecture computing holds for quality control systems and continuous improvement programs. Using an open computing network, a supervisory control system would be able [...]

Only slightly more than 15% of software development teams use, or are testing, object-oriented software development tools, according to Geoff Seel, author of a report on object orientation(*). Object-oriented technology […]

Increasing demand for Windows-based applications is pushing IS toward delivering homegrown, object-oriented programs on PCs. Here are some tools that can help. While big iron database management system vendors hold […]

In 1982 James Martin published a book entitled Application Development Without Programming, a widely read and influential work. He coined the term fourth-generation language (4GL) to describe a new, simplified […]

THROUGH THE YEARS, Microsoft has constantly upgraded the features of VB (Visual Basic) to keep them in sync with Windows' capabilities. Yet even as VB took on new features, Windows […]

Every couple of years, Microsoft Corp. hoists a flag to rally the troops. Win32, OLE, Component Object Model (COM), ActiveX and Windows DNA would, we were told, revolutionize the business […]

Microsoft is attempting to do for the Internet what it did for Windows programming One of the key moments in the history of Microsoft -- and of the Internet -- […]

Constraint-based, parametric CAD software for architectural design One of the key differences between art and design is that design tends to be defined by constraints. Artists might be constrained by […]

Nick Langley reveals what you need to know before taking on C and C++ * What are they? C is a programming language most commonly used with Unix. C++ is […]

Although the prospect of Microsoft producing a cross-platform, distributed-component architecture seems a tantalizing vision, for some it appears too good to be true. Developers and users said that Distributed Component […]

Because object-oriented programming increases software productivity, quality and consistency, it makes sense to put this feature in an operating system. IBM's System Object Model (SOM), an OOP facility at the […]

Object-oriented programming allows step-by-step approach to client/server applications * HYANNIS, Mass. -- Often when IBM makes a major announcement, it invites other vendors with complementary products or new applications to […]

FOXPRO BEGAN as a clone of dBase II, which was once the dominant desktop database. But over the past 23 years, it has turned out to be much more than […]

Object-based system wins kudos -- and award strict devotion to an open, standard and object-oriented information technology infrastructure is making the Boeing Commercial Airline Group's five-year overhaul of its manufacturing […]

SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft Corp. demonstrated component technology for both Internet clients and servers at its Professional Developers Conference here last week. The tools and platforms discussed at the conference ranged from […]

It used to be hard to write applications that used the Windows graphical interface. Then Microsoft brought out Visual Basic 1.0, and 'Windows everywhere' stopped being a ridiculous goal. The […]

Inheritance, subclassing, reuse, encapsulation. The mantra of object-oriented programming is as fundamental as God, country, and Mom's apple pie. Or maybe the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The power to […]

Software vendors are pushing object linking ideas, Rachel Frampton finds, as the means by which users can work with different applications at the same time Today's desktop applications might look […]

We hear a lot about paradigm shifts, but what's one like really? Like a long-anticipated first kiss? Like the imperceptible approach of an Ice Age? Or maybe like a Russian […]

One of the most pressing issues facing corporate IS departments today is the need to create new business applications in a timely manner. Charged by management to increase efficiency, corporate […]

By John Pallatto CASE tool vendors are moving steadily into the field of analysis and design of object-oriented software to support programmers who are building new applications in Ada, C […]

By Ryan Davis-Wright While Macintosh users enjoy the power and flexibility of Apple Computer Inc.'s HyperCard, PC users are anxiously awaiting an applications-development program of the same stature for their […]

By Paul M. Sherer Only three months after Borland International Inc. and Microsoft Corp. added object-oriented programming (OOP) features to their Pascal compilers, developers are already tapping the technology's benefits […]