Prograph: a step towards liberating programming from textual conditioning

Cox, Philip T.; Giles, F.R.; Pietrzykowski, Tomasz

doi:10.1109/wvl.1989.77057

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“…Especially early versions of data-flow-based visual programming languages tried to aim at a really wide scope of application, proposing data flow as a general purpose programming model. Prograph, for instance, is a general purpose data flow visual programming language including strong typing and other properties of object orientation such as multiple inheritance [72]. VisaVis [73], employing an implicit type system, demonstrated that it was able to express algorithms such as Quicksort more compactly than Prograph.…”

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“…Prograoh is an object oriented VPL, created by T. Pietryzkowski and P.T. Cox [14]. It is commercialized by by Pictorius Inc.…”

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A study on Visual Programming Extension of JavaScript

Ali¹,

Sultana²,

Pervez³

2011

IJCA

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Visual programming extension of JavaScript language is presented and discussed. The aim of designing this language is to make programming simple, easy and more understandable to the audience who are fresh or new in programming, to improve the correctness with which people perform programming tasks, and/or to improve the speed with which people perform programming tasks. It provides ease to programmers, i.e. they are not required to learn or remember syntax. They will just have to enter the values using visual constructs. It is an attempt to make programming and maintenance of programs easier, and therefore cheaper. A hybrid technique is used to design VPxJavaScript, both symbols and text will be used to construct a program using this language. While deciding symbols to be used in, it was kept in mind that symbols must be as few as possible and most understandable shapes have been selected to represent corresponding constructs of JavaScript. The above aspect helped us in designing visual programming in order to keep the language more readable, understandable and writable. This paper highlights the usefulness of each symbol and discusses visual representation of normal JavaScript code. This paper also discussed the problems in JavaScript and proposed solution of problem and its equivalent visual representation. General TermsVisual Programing Language, Theory of Programming Languages.

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“…When multi-dimensional expressions, called visual expressions, are the syntax of a new programming language, the system is called a visual programming language. For example, Prograph [Cox et al 1989] was a research (and later, commercial) object-flow visual programming language in which components of the classes were specified by placing icons, and whose method syntax consisted of dataflow diagrams. Another example is Peridot [Myers 1990], a research visual programming language for programming user interfaces, part of whose syntax was the demonstration of actions on data objects.…”

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The impact of software engineering research on modern programming languages

Ryder

Soffa

Burnett

2005

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.

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Software engineering research and programming language design have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship, with traceable impacts since the 1970s, when these areas were first distinguished from one another. This report documents this relationship by focusing on several major features of current programming languages: data and procedural abstraction, types, concurrency, exceptions, and visual programming mechanisms. The influences are determined by tracing references in publications in both fields, obtaining oral histories from language designers delineating influences on them, and tracking cotemporal research trends and ideas as demonstrated by workshop topics, special issue publications, and invited talks in the two fields. In some cases there is conclusive This article has been developed under the auspices of the Impact Project. The aim of the project is to provide a scholarly study of the impact that software engineering research-both academic and industrial-has had upon practice. The principal output of the project is a series of individual papers covering the impact upon practice of research in several selected major areas of software engineering. Each of these papers is being published in ACM TOSEM. Additional information about the project can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigsoft/impact/. This article is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under award number CCF-0137766, the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT), the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), and the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association (JEITA). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations, expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect, of the NSF, ACM SIGSOFT, the IEE, or JEITA. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or direct commercial advantage and that copies show this notice on the first page or initial screen of a display along with the full citation. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, to redistribute to lists, or to use any component of this work in other works requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Permissions may be requested from Publications Dept., ACM, Inc., 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 USA, fax: +1 (212) 869-0481, or permissions@acm.org. data supporting influence. In other cases, there are circumstantial arguments (i.e., cotemporal ideas) that indicate influence. Using this approach, this study provides evidence of the impact of software engineering research on modern programming language design and documents the close relationship between these two fields.

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Prograph: a step towards liberating programming from textual conditioning

Cited by 107 publications

References 5 publications

Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

A study on Visual Programming Extension of JavaScript

The impact of software engineering research on modern programming languages

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