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Over the past four decades software tools have profoundly changed how people from all industries design their products, from cars to pharmaceutical drugs, newspapers, bridges and buildings — the list goes on. This is known as Computer-Aided Design (CAD, complemented by CAM, Computer-Aided Manufacturing). Software construction is design too; disproving the old saying about the cobbler’s children, software engineers have developed CAD tools for themselves, from fairly simple programs such as text editors to entire tool suites known as integrated development environments or IDEs.
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Meyer, B. (2013). Programming languages and tools. In: Touch of Class. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92145-5_12
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