> 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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