| M. Zloof (1981) QBE/OBE: a language for office and business automation. Computer 14, 13---22. |
.... phone number will be dialed automatically by the Telephone plug in object (8) If the salesperson integrates a word processing document into the system (11) it can be faxed to the customer by pushing the Fax button (6) see color plate 2) declarative by example programming used in QBE and OBE [29, 30]; a more complete description of ICBE can be found in Zloof and Krishnamurthy and Krishnamurthy and Zloof [5, 6] 5.2.1. ICBE s Intended Audience To apply the audience specific benchmarks to ICBE, the first step is to identify the intended audience in a precise enough fashion that the intended ....
M. Zloof (1981) QBE/OBE: a language for office and business automation. Computer 14, 13---22.
....stress that the current generation of commercially available spreadsheet packages are weak examples of VP systems. All nontrivial spreadsheet applications require the use of intricate syntax to define formulae or macros. A better example of the use of tabular expressions is the original QBE system [41]. QBE allows a user to draw a database query on a characterbased screens. The drawing is a little table that reflects the relational structure of the database being queried. Projects and selects can be specified by filling in the cells of the drawn table with restrictions or matches for its ....
M.M. Zloof. QBE/OBE: A Language for Office and Business Automation. Computer, pages 13-- 22, May 1981.
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