The power of abstraction, reuse, and simplicity: An object-oriented library for event-driven design

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2635, Issue , 2004, Pages 236-271

  Meyer, Bertrand ^a,b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Eiffel Software   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EVENT-DRIVEN; OBJECT ORIENTED LIBRARIES; WEB FORMS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33746854120     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39993-3_13     Document Type: Article

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