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Most software is developed using interactive computing systems and substantial compute-power. Considerable assistance can be given to the developer by providing language-based support that takes advantage of analysis of software artifacts and the languages in which they are written. In this paper, some of the technical challenges and new opportunities for realizing that support are discussed. Some language design issues that affect the implementation of language-based services are summarized. The paper concludes with some proposals for assisting user understanding of language documents.

This research was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense under Grant MDA972-92-J-1028, and by the National Science Foundation under Infrastructure Grant CDA-8722788. The content of the information does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the U.S. Government.

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Graham, S.L. (1994). Languages and interactive software development. In: Gutknecht, J. (eds) Programming Languages and System Architectures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57840-4_22

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