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Compsoing Data & Process Descriptions in the Design of Software Systems

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Jackson, Daniel
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May 1988
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MIT-LCS-TR-419
Abstract
Two paradigms are dominant in software development, the data paradigm and the process paradigm. Our contention is that relying exclusively on either is counter-productive. In the data paradigm, a system is specified as operations acting on states. The process paradigm focuses on sequences of events.
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