Intentional Software Explained

Intentional Software
Industry:Software engineering
Fate:Acquired by Microsoft
Founded:September 2002
Defunct:April 2017
Hq Location City:Bellevue, Washington
Key People:Charles Simonyi (co-founder), Eric C. Anderson (CEO)
Num Employees:50-100
Website:http://www.intentional.com

Intentional Software was a software company that designed tools and platforms that followed 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 included 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 later began developing a platform for improving productivity of software groups.

The company was co-founded by Charles Simonyi and Gregor Kiczales in 2002, and later headed by CEO Eric Anderson. However, Kiczales left the company in 2003.[6] In 2017 it had almost 100 staff.[7] On April 18, 2017, it was acquired by Microsoft,[8] [9] with many of its employees joining the Microsoft Office team.

Products and services

Intentional Software developed the Domain Workbench, a language workbench for building and working with domain-specific languages,[10] and designed custom languages for clients for their particular uses.[11] They also built the Intentional Platform,[12] a platform for group productivity software.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta. Scott. Rosenberg. 4 September 2017.
  2. News: Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software. Pontin. Jason. 2007. The New York Times. 2017-09-12. en-US. 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?. Fowler. Martin.
  4. Book: Rosenan, Boaz. Proceedings of the ACM international conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications companion . Designing language-oriented programming languages . 2010. OOPSLA '10. New York, NY, USA. ACM. 207–208. 10.1145/1869542.1869576. 9781450302401. 13841558 .
  5. Book: Simonyi. Charles. Christerson. Magnus. Clifford. Shane. Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications . Intentional software . 2006. OOPSLA '06. New York, NY, USA. ACM. 451–464. 10.1145/1167473.1167511. 1595933484. 10334945 .
  6. Web site: Co-Founder Of Intentional Software Has Left The Company. 2020-07-28. InformationWeek. en.
  7. News: Charles Simonyi rejoins Microsoft as it buys his startup. 2017-04-18. The Seattle Times. 2017-09-12. en-US.
  8. Web site: Microsoft acquires Intentional Software and brings old friend back into fold - TechCrunch. Ron. Miller. 4 September 2017.
  9. Web site: Charles Simonyi, Founder, Chairman, and CTO -. www.intentional.com. 2017-09-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20180825205823/http://www.intentional.com/charles-simonyi/. 2018-08-25. dead.
  10. Web site: Charles Simonyi reveals production use of Intentional Software @ JAOO. InfoQ. 2017-09-12.
  11. Web site: ACORD and Intentional Software Announce Strategic Partnership — ACORD.org Press Releases. Press Releases. en-us. 2017-09-12.
  12. Web site: Intentional Platform -. www.intentsoft.com. 2017-09-12.

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