A Comparative Case Study of Three Database Application Development Environments

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 68-76

  Ahmed, Iftikhar ^a   Lochovsky, Frederick H ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

4GLs; Database application development environments; Evaluation; Object oriented programming; Query languages; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 31044448727     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/335505.335513     Document Type: Article

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