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Adding interactive visual syntax to textual code
Leif Andersen, Michael Ballantyne, Matthias Felleisen
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages13 Nov 2020Open access
Adding interactive visual syntax to textual code
Leif Andersen, Michael Ballantyne, Matthias Felleisen · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 13 Nov 2020
Abstract
Many programming problems call for turning geometrical thoughts into code: tables, hierarchical structures, nests of objects, trees, forests, graphs, and so on. Linear text does not do justice to such thoughts. But, it has been the dominant programming medium for the past and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This paper proposes a novel mechanism for conveniently extending textual programming languages with problem-specific visual syntax. It argues the necessity of this language feature, demonstrates the feasibility with a robust prototype, and sketches a design plan for adapting the idea to other languages.
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- NI5P54W09R44S85
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- Published
- 13 Nov 2020
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Issue
- Volume 4 · Issue OOPSLA · Pages 1–28
- ISSN
- 2475-1421
- Language
- EN