> 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.
The quality of the code would depend of the quality of the design, and there
would be nothing stopping people designing badly. :(
>
> 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
>
> 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).
No OO, you don't know what your missing out on! You could link your
structure diagram code generator to a third party UML design tool such as
Object Domain or Model Maker. Where they produced the class strucure and
general program behaviour source and you generated the code for each method.
That in theory would work really nicely.
Cheers,
Nahum Wild
Game Designer
Realism
ESDAO - The wargame of a thousand faces.
http://www.esdao.net
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