Programmable Applications: Interpreter Meets Interface
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Eisenberg, Michael
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Current fashion in "user-friendly'' software design tends to place an overreliance on direct manipulation interfaces. To be truly expressive (and thus truly user-friendly), applications need both learnable interfaces and domain-enriched languages that are accessible to the user. This paper discusses some of the design issues that arise in the creation of such programmable applications. As an example, we present "SchemePaint", a graphics application that combines a MacPaint-like interface with an interpreter for (a "graphics-enriched'') Scheme.
Date issued
1991-10-01Other identifiers
AIM-1325
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AIM-1325
Keywords
applications programming, software design