Intentional Software

Short description: American software company

Intentional SoftwareIndustry| Software engineering

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Fate| Acquired by Microsoft
Founded| September 2002
Defunct| April 2017
Headquarters|

Bellevue, Washington

Key people

| Charles Simonyi (co-founder), Eric C. Anderson (CEO)

Number of 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.

## References

1. ↑ Rosenberg, Scott. "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta". http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18047/?a=f. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
2. ↑ Pontin, Jason (2007). "Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/business/yourmoney/28slip.html.
3. ↑ Fowler, Martin. "Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?". http://www.cime.cl/archivos/ILI253/8870_cl2-MartinFowler-Language-Workbench-DSL.pdf.
4. ↑ Rosenan, Boaz (2010). "Designing Language-oriented Programming Languages". Proceedings of the ACM International Conference Companion on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications Companion. OOPSLA '10 (New York, NY, USA: ACM): 207–208. doi:10.1145/1869542.1869576. ISBN 9781450302401.
5. ↑ Simonyi, Charles; Christerson, Magnus; Clifford, Shane (2006). "Intentional Software". Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. OOPSLA '06 (New York, NY, USA: ACM): 451–464. doi:10.1145/1167473.1167511. ISBN 1595933484.
6. ↑ "Co-Founder Of Intentional Software Has Left The Company" (in en). https://www.informationweek.com/co-founder-of-intentional-software-has-l/8700179.
7. ↑ "Charles Simonyi rejoins Microsoft as it buys his startup" (in en-US). The Seattle Times. 2017-04-18. http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/charles-simony-rejoins-microsoft-as-it-buys-his-startup/.
8. ↑ Miller, Ron. "Microsoft acquires Intentional Software and brings old friend back into fold - TechCrunch". https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/18/microsoft-acquires-intentional-software-and-brings-old-friend-back-into-fold/. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
9. ↑ "Charles Simonyi, Founder, Chairman, and CTO -". http://www.intentional.com/charles-simonyi/.
10. ↑ "Charles Simonyi reveals production use of Intentional Software @ JAOO". https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/09/intentional-at-jaoo.
11. ↑ "ACORD and Intentional Software Announce Strategic Partnership — ACORD.org Press Releases" (in en-us). https://www.acord.org/media/pressreleases/Pages/20140513_ACORD_Intentional_partner.aspx.
12. ↑ "Intentional Platform -". http://www.intentsoft.com/intentional-technology/intentional-platform/.

## External links

* Intentional Software website
* Martin Fowler's essay on the company

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