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The system for business automation (SBA): programming language

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 20 , Issue 6 (June 1977) table of contents

Pages: 385 - 396

Year of Publication: 1977

ISSN:0001-0782

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Moshé M. Zloof	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
S. Peter de Jong	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The system for business automation (SBA) is a system within which application experts—nonprogrammers—can describe and execute their applications on a computer. The user of SBA views his application as manipulation of information in two-dimensional pictures of tables, business forms, and reports on a display terminal. He can gradually automate this application by giving “examples” to the system of how he manually manipulates the information. The Query-by-Example database language is a subset of the SBA programming language.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
application programming, business system specification, data abstraction, data flow, data processing, database, forms flow, graphics, programming language, query, user interface

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Moshé M. Zloof: colleagues

S. Peter de Jong: colleagues

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