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Intentional Software is a software company founded by Charles Simonyi. The company focused on productivity apps that follow the principles of intentional programming.[1]

It designed language workbenches, tools that separated software function from implementation, and allowed 'language-focused' development.[2] This in theory allowed automatic rewriting of code as expert knowledge of implementation options changed.[3]

On April 18, 2017, it was acquired by Microsoft.[4]

References

  1. ^ Rosenberg, Scott. "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta". Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  2. ^ Fowler, Martin. "Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ Simonyi, Charles; Christerson, Magnus; Clifford, Shane (2006). "Intentional Software" (PDF). Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. OOPSLA '06. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 451–464. doi:10.1145/1167473.1167511. ISBN 1595933484 (PDF). {{cite journal}}: |archive-url= requires |archive-date= (help)
  4. ^ Miller, Ron. "Microsoft acquires Intentional Software and brings old friend back into fold - TechCrunch". Retrieved 4 September 2017.