Making Visual Languages More Effective
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- Dr Christopher Holt
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| Author(s) | | Holt CM |
| Publication type | | Report |
| Series Title | | Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series |
| Year | | 1996 |
| Report Number | | 549 |
| Pages | | 7 |
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| The history of visual language development seems to be full of unfulfilled promise; good ideas are seldom taken up by the outside community because benefits are not perceived to outweigh costs. One reason for this has to do with a certain confusion about how best to take advantage of the flexibility that non-textual syntactic structures should provide. It is suggested that several canonical views of a program be available, reflecting people's various preferences for abbreviation. This is considered within the framework of a dataflow-based notation, but the general points raised should be applicable to other styles of visual language. |
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| Institution | | Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Place Published | | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| URL | | http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/549.pdf |
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