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From: mfriedma@oracle.com (Michael Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Case tools for 3GL's
Message-ID: <1990Feb11.030522.17814@oracle.com>
Date: 11 Feb 90 03:05:22 GMT
Reply-To: mfriedma@oracle.UUCP (Michael Friedman)
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I'm looking for CASE tools designed for 3GL's.

I'd like to get an idea of what kinds of sytems exist to help people
who are programming in 3GL's.  Most CASE tools I have seen are aimed
at people building databases.  I'm looking into CASE tools that are
good for someone building a system of 5 or 6 100,000 line C programs
which do little or no database manipulation.

In my mind's eye I see something that runs on a UNIX X-terminal.  You
build a flow chart.  Each element of the flowchart can be expanded
into another flowchart or into one or more lines of code.  The system
knows enough about C that at the lowest level it can generate the
flowchart as you type in code.

Is there anything like that on the market?

Is there anything at all on the market that isn't intended for people
using databases?

Mike Friedman
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