The System for Business Automation (SBA): Programming Language The system for business automation (SBA) is a system within which application experts-nonprogrammers-can describe and execute their applications on a computer. The user of SBA views his application as manipulation of information in two-dimensional pictures of tables, business forms, and reports on a display terminal. He can gradually automate this application by giving "examples" to the system of how he manually manipulates the information. The Query-by-Example database language is a subset of the SBA programming language. CACM June, 1977 Zloof, M. M. de Jong, S. P. programming language, graphics, user in terface, data flow, forms flow, data abstraction, database, query, data processing, business system specification, application programming 3.73 3.74 4.22 4.33 4.34 CA770604 JB December 29, 1977 1:25 AM 2155 4 2959 2406 4 2959 2710 4 2959 2715 4 2959 2716 4 2959 2717 4 2959 2718 4 2959 2765 4 2959 2817 4 2959 2888 4 2959 2901 4 2959 2957 4 2959 2959 4 2959 2965 4 2959 3087 4 2959 3154 4 2959 2046 5 2959 2959 5 2959 2959 5 2959 2959 5 2959