Intentional Software
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| Industry | Software engineering |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Charles Simonyi Gregor Kiczales  |
| Defunct | April 2017 |
| Fate | Acquired by Microsoft |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Charles Simonyi (founder), Eric Anderson (CEO) |
Number of employees | 50-100 |
| Parent | Microsoft |
| Website | http://www.intentional.com |
Intentional Software is a software company that designs productivity apps that follow the principles of intentional programming[1] in which programmers focus on capturing the intent of users and designers, and spend as little time as possible interacting with machines and compilers.[2] Its tools include language workbenches, tools that separated software function from implementation, and allowed 'language-focused' development.[3][4] This allowed automatic rewriting of code as expert knowledge of implementation options changed.[5]
The company was founded by Charles Simonyi in 2002, and later headed by CEO Eric Anderson. In 2017 it had almost 100 staff.[6] On April 18, 2017, it was acquired by Microsoft,[7][8] with many of its employees joining the Microsoft Office team.
References
- ^ Rosenberg, Scott. "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta". Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- ^ Pontin, Jason (2007). "Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
- ^ Fowler, Martin. "Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?" (PDF).
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Rosenan, Boaz (2010). "Designing Language-oriented Programming Languages". Proceedings of the ACM International Conference Companion on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications Companion. OOPSLA '10. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 207–208. doi:10.1145/1869542.1869576. ISBN 9781450302401.
- ^ 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) - ^ "Charles Simonyi rejoins Microsoft as it buys his startup". The Seattle Times. 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
- ^ Miller, Ron. "Microsoft acquires Intentional Software and brings old friend back into fold - TechCrunch". Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- ^ "Charles Simonyi, Founder, Chairman, and CTO -". www.intentional.com. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
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