Microsoft's data-centric platform, which is aimed at empowering nondevelopers to build distributed applications, has roots in some very familiar apps.
Microsoft set out to create Oslo, its general-purpose software modeling platform, back in 2003 in an attempt to make software development more accessible to more people by enabling them to create applications from models or diagrams.
The initial goal was to deliver a visual tool for creating models along with a repository to store the models and metadata. But the need for a new declarative programming language emerged. That language was code-named D, and Microsoft will deliver an early look at the language as well as the tool and the repository next month at its Professional Developers Conference.
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