Field Programming Environment: A Friendly Integrated Environment for Learning and Development

FIELD has been a remarkably successful research project. The ideas first exhibited in the environment now form the basis for most of the current generation of programming environments, including Hewlett-Packard''s Softbench, DEC''s FUSE, Sun''s Tooltalk, Lucid''s Energize, and SGI''s Codevision. FIELD pioneered the notion of broadcast messaging as a basis for tool integration. Moreover, many ...