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WIZDOM for WINDOWS: simulating human thought processes
As WIZDOM Director, Baruch Vardi is the original architect of the WIZDOM Application Generator. A graduate of the very first Computer Sciences course at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has held posts in the US, including Scientific Information Research based at North Western University in Chicago. He has spent the past 10 years working on WIZDOM. For more information contact Whitestrand Software Ltd on +44 (0)121 323 3422, email: 101466.253{at}compuserve.com.
The use of object-oriented applications development is currently increasing and will surely influence the decisions regarding implementation strategies and software tool deployment during the remainder of this decade. Historically, the evolution of computer languages is divided into four generations: the first includes the binary languages, sequences of the bits; the second includes the assemblers; the third includes the highlevel languages, Cobol PL/1 etc.; the fourth includes the non-procedural languages and WYSIWYG. Could it be that the object-oriented (OO) methodology is the primary representative of the fifth generation?