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American software company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Industry | Software engineering |
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Founded | September 2002 |
Founder | Charles Simonyi Gregor Kiczales |
Defunct | April 2017 |
Fate | Acquired by Microsoft |
Headquarters | |
Key people | Charles Simonyi (co-founder), Eric C. Anderson (CEO) |
Number of employees | 50-100 |
Parent | Microsoft |
Website | http://www.intentional.com |
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.
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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