The Glasgow Persistent Libraries

This chapter describes the development of the Glasgow Persistent Libraries for Napier88. Our overall goals are to increase software re-use and accelerate software construction and maintenance. The objectives of this work were to investigate the creation of high-quality library components and the provision of accurate retrieval mechanisms enabling users to find relevant library components. We discuss the basic principles which guided our research and describe the tools which were built to support the construction and use of the Libraries. To conclude, we outline possible future work in the area of large component libraries.

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