On Thursday 20 December 2007 07:55:11 Richard Taylor wrote:
> You won't find much on MASCOT unfortunately:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_Approach_to_Software_Construction_Oper
>ation_and_Test
This was indeed enough for me to find lots :-)
Including:
* The Official Handbook of Mascot : Version 3.1 : June 1987
http://async.org.uk/Hugo.Simpson/MASCOT-3.1-Manual-June-1987.pdf
linked from:
* http://async.org.uk/Hugo.Simpson/
Interestingly (to me :-), reading the documention, their starting point was
essentially very similar to mine -
cf http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Introduction
Well, I do like doing software archaeology... (I have a copy of Simula BEGIN
for example, along with various occam books :-)
Something striking - the above manual is over 20 years old, and appears
intensely relevant today. Secondly, that manual covers version 3.1. Version 1
dates back to 1975 (according to Hugo Simpson's page) - predating Smalltalk
(but 8 years after Simula had its first book published...).
It's really incredible just how much of their wheels we've reinvented :-)
I don't know whether to be really happy (reinvention of something previously
successful implies its a good idea :-) or whether to cry :-)
(really happy really :-)
Michael
--
http://yeoldeclue.com/blog
http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Developers/
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