Leaving the visual language ghetto

Author

Münch, M. ; Schürr, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tech. Hochschule Aachen, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

155

Abstract

Visual languages (VLs)-invented outside the visual programming language (VPL) community-are quite successfully used around the world. There are, for example, international VL standards used in the telecommunication, software engineering and automatic control engineering industries, but alas, most of these language standards were defined without knowing the VL definition and design principles developed by the VPL community. This paper suggests a procedure for employing our knowledge about VLs to develop incremental improvements for widely accepted visual modeling/programming language standards. It starts with a survey of component-based VLs and ends with some proposals about how to to incorporate modeling-in-the-large concepts into the IEC-1131 standard for function block languages

Keywords

IEC standards; simulation languages; software standards; subroutines; visual languages; IEC-1131 standard; component-based visual languages; function block languages; incremental improvements; international language standards; language definition principles; language design principles; modelling in the large; survey; visual modelling languages; visual programming languages; Automatic control; Communication industry; Computer industry; Computer languages; Design engineering; Industrial control; Software engineering; Software standards; Standards development; Telecommunication standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0216-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1999.795886

Filename

795886