On driving and monitoring Smalltalk-80 applications using Unix spreadsheets

Author

Corriveau, Jean-Pierre ; Macready, Bill

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1993

fDate

27-29 May 1993

Firstpage

534

Lastpage

538

Abstract

Our goal is to overview the Application Programming Interface (API) we have developed to allow for the integration of Smalltalk-80 applications with Unix spreadsheets. We first present two motivating examples and summarize the relevance of spreadsheets for Smalltalk applications. Our contention is that two omnipresent but cumbersome tasks of Smalltalk applications can be efficiently handled by a spreadsheet, namely the driving and the monitoring of an application. We overview the implementation of our API in order to demonstrate that the Smalltalk-80 programming environment is easily integratable with other Unix applications, and to emphasize the benefits of such a potential for integration

Keywords

Smalltalk; Unix; object-oriented programming; programming environments; software engineering; spreadsheet programs; user interfaces; Application Programming Interface; Smalltalk-80 applications; Unix applications; Unix spreadsheets; application driving; application monitoring; object oriented programming; programming environment; software design; software development; Application software; Computer science; Computerized monitoring; Design engineering; Jacobian matrices; Object oriented programming; Programming environments; Software engineering; Software prototyping; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing and Information, 1993. Proceedings ICCI '93., Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sudbury, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4212-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCI.1993.315315

Filename

315315