Abstract
After more than a decade of research, visual languages have still not become everyday programming tools. On a short term, an integration of visual languages with well-established (textual) programming languages may be more likely to meet the actual requirements of practical software development than the highly ambitious goal of creating purely visual languages. In such an integration each paradigm can support the other where it is superior. Particularly attractive is the use of visual expressions for the description of domain-specific data structures in combination with textual notations for abstract control structures. In addition to a basic framework for heterogeneous languages, we outline the design of a development system that allows rapid prototyping of implementations of heterogeneous languages. Examples will be presented from the domains of logical, functional, and procedural languages.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages |
| Publisher | IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Pages | 318-325 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 1995 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages 1995 - Darmstadt, Germany Duration: 5 Sept 1995 → 9 Sept 1995 Conference number: 11th https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/4002/proceeding (Proceedings) |
Conference
| Conference | IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages 1995 |
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| Abbreviated title | VL 1995 |
| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Darmstadt |
| Period | 5/09/95 → 9/09/95 |
| Other | A previous title of "IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC)" |
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