baxter@zola.ics.uci.edu (Ira Baxter) (07/09/90)
In <142@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> dgg@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (David Gawron) writes: >In article <1990Jul8.011033.947@dhw68k.cts.com> >stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick 'Transputer' Stein) writes: >> >>2) I thought the only way to build reuseable software was ala Draco, i.e., >>a constraint-based input specification. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is wrong, Draco does not accept "constraint-based input"s. But, to answer: >Where can I find info on Draco? @phdthesis(Neighbors80a, author = "James Milne Neighbors", title = "{Software Construction Using Components}", school = "University of California at Irvine", year = 1980, note = {Available as ICS Tech Report 160.}, @article(Neighbors84a, author = "James Neighbors", title = "{The Draco Approach to Constructing Software from Reusable Components}", journal = "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering", volume = "SE-10", number = 5, pages = "-", month = sep, year = 1984, @incollection(Neighbors89a, author = "James M. Neighbors", title = "{Draco: A Method for Engineering Reusable Software Systems}", booktitle = "{Software Reusability}", editor = "Ted J. Biggerstaff and Alan J. Perlis", publisher = "ACM Press", address = "New York", pages = "295-320", year = 1989, note = "ISBN 0-201-08017-6", @article(Freeman87a:draco-analysis, author = "Peter Freeman", title = "{A Conceptual Analysis of the Draco Approach to Constructing Software Systems}", journal = "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering", volume = "SE-13", number = 7, month = jul, year = 1987, pages = "830-844", annotation = {Gives overview of Draco system. Shows how Draco's various aspects fit into Software Engineering. ``Our primary purpose here has been to lay bare some of the connections between Draco and the principles of SE.''} ) If, after all this, you are *still* interested, you can get a tape containing Draco from UC Irvine (via me) in exchange for some administrative overhead and a few dollars (to handle tape costs, etc); Draco runs under Sun OS under a version of Franz Lisp. -- Ira Baxter