M.M. Zloof, "O#ce-by-Example: A Business Language that Unifies Data and Word Processing and Electronic Mail", IBM System Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 272-304, 1982.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....O#ce workers should not, however, be expected to learn how to program in order to specify or use computerized o#ce procedures. Attempts to provide users with the ability to automate routine functions have mostly concentrated on programming by example techniques for encoding o#ce procedures [Zloof 1982; Halbert 1984] With this approach, one first builds a system containing electronic representations of o#ce objects and functions. Such a system is then enhanced by permitting users to teach the system to perform routine functions by stepping through the procedures using examples. For example, ....

M.M. Zloof, "O#ce-by-Example: A Business Language that Unifies Data and Word Processing and Electronic Mail", IBM System Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 272-304, 1982.

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