Design and implementation of programming environments in the Visual Programmers Workbench

Author

Rubin, Robert V. ; Walker, James, II ; Golin, Eric

Author_Institution

GTE Lab., Waltham, MA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

31 Oct-2 Nov 1990

Firstpage

547

Lastpage

554

Abstract

The authors describe Visual Programmers Workbench (VPW), which addresses the rapid synthesis of programming environments for the specification, analysis, and execution of visual programs. A language-based environment for a specific visual language is generated in VPW from a specification of the syntactic structure, the abstract structure, the static semantics, and the dynamic semantics of the language. VPW is built around a model of distributed processing based on shared distributed memory. This framework is used both for defining the architecture of the environment and for the execution model of programming languages. The VPW has been used to experiment with visual programming environments for several visual languages. The design of the Visual Programmers Workbench and experience with using it to generate a distributed programming environment for a concurrent visual language are described

Keywords

programming environments; visual programming; Visual Programmers Workbench; abstract structure; concurrent visual language; distributed processing; distributed programming environment; dynamic semantics; language-based environment; programming environments; shared distributed memory; static semantics; syntactic structure; visual language; visual programs; Computer languages; Computer science; Concrete; Distributed processing; Programming environments; Programming profession; Software engineering; Switches; Synthesizers; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1990. COMPSAC 90. Proceedings., Fourteenth Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2054-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1990.139429

Filename

139429