Bringing graphic dialogues to APL

  • Authors:
  • Karl Soop

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM ESRI, 135 Chaussee de Bruxelles, B-1310 La Hulpe, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • APL '86 Proceedings of the international conference on APL
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Most attempts to introduce graphic support into APL are limited to handling the composition and presentation of pictures. This paper proposes a model and a formalism encompassing also the other phases of a graphic dialog. The proposal involves a logical extension to structured programming, and is based largely upon already existing or hidden elements of the language. Even though its linguistic consequences are quite limited, the model opens up a new view on the implementation of an APL execution system.