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Cedar is an environment for “experimental programming,” the development of systems of moderate size that are used by moderate numbers of people. The Cedar environment runs on a collection of high-performance workstations connected by a network. This paper will discuss the mechanisms in the Cedar environment to support software development by small teams using workstations on a network and describe some of the successes and shortcomings of Cedar in this regard.
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Donahue, J. (1985). Software Development in the Cedar Programming Environment. In: Hansen, H.R. (eds) GI/OCG/ÖGI-Jahrestagung 1985. Informatik Fachberichte, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70639-4_4
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