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Peer reviewedPowell, Kevin – Library Trends, 1999
Explores elements of folkloristics that are applicable to the understanding and construction of computer software systems and programs. Discusses a similar tension between structuralism and contextualism in the study of folkways and by examining software pattern languages in comparison with narrative functions. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Folk Culture
Download full textRead, Tim; Hall, Hazel – 1996
Summer 1995 saw the release, with considerable media attention, of draft versions of Sun Microsystems' Java computer programming language and the HotJava browser. Java has been heralded as the latest "killer" technology in the Internet explosion. Sun Microsystems and numerous companies including Microsoft, IBM, and Netscape have agreed…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Computer Software Development
