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Visual abstraction in an interactive programming environment

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Michael L. Powell,

Mark A. LintonAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 18, Issue 6

Pages 14 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/872728.806847

Published: 01 June 1983 Publication History

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We are designing a software development system that implements “what you see is what you get” for programming. The system, called OMEGA, allows software to be displayed, processed, and modified, using pictorial representations to convey the structure and levels of abstraction of the program.

OMEGA takes advantage of the interactive user interface to provide syntax-free input, user selectable display format, and incremental semantic analysis. By distinguishing input specification from output display, and exploiting interaction in semantic analysis, we are able to unify the different abstraction mechanisms present in traditional programming environments.

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Visual abstraction in an interactive programming environment
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
    2. Development frameworks and environments

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 18, Issue 6

June 1983

219 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/872728

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SIGPLAN '83: Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Programming language issues in software systems
June 1983
230 pages
ISBN:0897911083
DOI:10.1145/800226
Chairmen:
John R. White,
Lawrence A. Rowe

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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