An Alternative Form of Computer Programming
Hayashi, Tsunetoshi
Department of Computer Science
Ritsumeikan University
(On leave to Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury)
Abstract
This paper is about an alternative method to present computer programs. Computer programs are usually written in a programming language framework, and made into existence as a file of text format data. This method was initially developed at the start of computer programming, and used long since then until now. It seems, however, it shows its age recently, since amount of programs to be developed on and for contemporary computing systems grows so huge that its abstraction level is insufficient to support them.
Here we will present alternative method to present computing mechanism for a computer. The description is based on Data Flow Programming Scheme, and uses graphical representation with ``point and click'' graphical user interface editing. And some additional topics on improvement of the method, concerned with the program structuring, are discussed.
A short outline of concrete design and compiler algorithm is also given as a conclusion.