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Designing a new foundation for design

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 5

Pages 71 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/1125944.1125978

Published: 01 May 2006 Publication History

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The book in which Fernando Flores and I introduced our version of the language-action perspective had an ambitious and provocative subtitle: Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design [8]. This special section of Communications offers the opportunity to apply the hindsight of nearly two decades to the implicit claim in that phrase, asking how the perspective has been successful as a foundation and promises to be so in the future.

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Designing a new foundation for design
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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Reviewer: Larry Bernstein

This short muddled exposition clearly does not support the author's claims; he belies his own arguments with his fuzziness. That the language-aspect perspective (LAP) is a foundation for software design is debatable. The author does not support his position with data. The notion that language can express an unambiguous design, without supporting pseudocode or diagrams, is questionable. Unified modeling language (UML) and the rational unified process (RUP) provide one reasonable counterpoint. Natural language is needed in design, but the design must also be expressed with some formal support. For example, Parnas points out that the statement "feet above sea level" was wrongly interpreted by two independent software shops [1]. The reader would do better to read about LAP than to look to this article for foundational support for LAP as a design metaphor. Online Computing Reviews Service

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Two decades of the language-action perspective

May 2006

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DOI:10.1145/1125944

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