To all those who are wondering.....
Who can programme?
Who has heard of Youden? How about Orr? And Jackson?
Have you heard the expression 'A picture paint a thousands words'?
Well - what I am doing is writing a complier that will produce code from
structure diagrams like these guys came up with. What we have, so far,
is an extension of the basic structured diagram and most of these
extensions come are because we can have the diagrams dynamic because
the user (programmer) will draw the structured diagram on the computer.
This compiler will, for now, produce Pascal source code but the actual
code is not all that important and it should be easy to extend it to produce
any source of object code. The user will place 'nodes' on the 'page' and
connect these 'nodes' to other 'nodes'. There are different 'nodes' for
different programming constructs. The user will then 'run' this code.
There will be no need to learn language syntax etc - the user will just fill-in
forms with the required information - eg, a for loop will require a starting
condition and an increment and a block of some actions.
It will be impossible (IN THEORY) to write bad code.
This is a project that has been going for a few years now and I did a paper
on it for my undergrad degree. I have decided to do a masters degree and
work on this for my thesis which is one year full time study with a further year
of study in more general stuff to do with computer science. After that I plan
to do (well, this is the theory) a PhD in the area - that should take another
three years. At the end of all this I/we/someone should have a working
version of a full general programming language that requires no code to be
written by programmers, only diagrams to be produced.
I would like to thank everyone here for their past and future help (cos I know
I am going to need it). So far you guys have been great. Keep up the good
work.
I have a strong programming background but have never written in Pascal
before and have never done any OO stuff except at uni (and that doesn't
count).
Chrissy.
PS - if you want to know a bit more about me then you could take a look at
www.home.gen.nz
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