Abstract
This paper describes Vista, a visual multiparadigm language integrated within a comfortable development environment. Vista supports fundamental software engineering principles during programming such as adequate notation, modularization, and weak coupling. Vista augments the object-oriented programming paradigm by signal-flow and data-flow based programming. It provides capabilities for the construction of event-driven and data-transformation systems. In constructing an application with Vista, visual as well as textual means can be used. Characteristic features of Vista are especially aimed at the combination of high-level and easy-to-use building blocks that are hierarchically organized. We introduce the notion of processors and networks and discuss how a remarkable degree of compositionality and reuse can be achieved by their employment.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Visual Object-Oriented Programming: Concepts and Environments |
| Editors | M.M Burnett, A. Goldberg, T.G. Lewis |
| Publisher | Manning Publications and Prentice Hall Inc. |
| Pages | 199-227 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Publication status | Published - 1995 |
Fields of science
- 102 Computer Sciences
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