TY - BOOK ID - 88203701 TI - SDL 97 AU - Cavalli, Ana AU - Sarma, Amardeo PY - 1997 SN - 9780444828163 0444828168 9780080541532 0080541534 128107263X 9781281072634 9786611072636 PB - Amsterdam New York Elsevier DB - UniCat KW - SDL (Computer program language) KW - Specification and Description Language (Computer program language) KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:88203701 AB - As Cavalli and Sarma astutely remarked in the introduction to this volume, it is quite remarkable that SDL '97 may have the first participant younger than SDL itself. SDL '97 provides the opportunity to reflect the course SDL has taken and why it has been successful over two decades where other languages addressing the same market have failed. SDL now also has a permanent companion in MSC (Message Sequence Charts). MSC today is a language in its own right and has its areas of application both in conjunction with SDL and independently or in combination with other techniques. MSC has strong st ER -