collberg@dna.lth.se (Christian S. Collberg) (10/03/90)
Can anyone tell me where I can find a reference to a language named PROTEL? Parnas mentions it in a recent paper but does not supply a reference (Argh!). Thanks. Chris Collberg collberg@dna.lth.se
schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) (10/04/90)
In article <1990Oct3.121520.2388@lth.se> collberg@DNA.LTH.Se (Christian S. Collberg) writes: >Can anyone tell me where I can find a reference to a language named >PROTEL? Parnas mentions it in a recent paper but does not supply a >reference (Argh!). > PROTEL (PRocedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language) is a propiatary language developed by Bell Northern Research. It was developed in the 70's for development of the DMS-100 family of telephone switches. Currently, the program for the DMS-100 is around 15 millions of code and the widely held opinion is that PROTEL was/is crucial to this achivement. PROTEL is (very losely) a PASCAL derivative. We are now at version 5 of the language and still making changes as we learn how to handle large S/W project. We like to think we have a better language than Ada and Modular-n before either was defined. Some papers were published a decade ago. I don't recall where, but I can find the references if you want. (But I can tell you the published papers are mostly obsolete.) If there is interest, I can post a summary of the features and what makes the language distinct (dare I say better?) P.S. Bell Northern Reseach is the R&D sudsidary of Northern Telecom. We are competitors to AT&T Bell Labs. Stanley Chow BitNet: schow@BNR.CA BNR UUCP: ..!uunet!bnrgate!bcarh185!schow (613) 763-2831 ..!psuvax1!BNR.CA.bitnet!schow Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.