Status Partial solutions available in Lisp and similar environments. Heterogeneous information base integration demonstrated. Beginning work on more extensive approaches in this program. . Good starting points in current work on ML, Dylan and Scheme. Still need better ideas for garbage collection and cross language integration.
Technologies exist for representing rationale and relationships.
Develop new implementation techniques for dynamic languages which yield performance comparable to those of static languages Type propagation algorithms Real Time garbage collection Cross language integration Create representations for design rationale which make it easy to retrieve and browse. Create natural collaborative environment in which rationale capture has low cost.