Kai Koskimies, Hanspeter Mössenböck,
"Active Text for Structuring and Understanding Source Code"
, in SOFTWARE - Practice and Experience, 7-1996, SOFTWARE - Practice & Experience, 26(7): 833-850, July 1996
Original Titel:
Active Text for Structuring and Understanding Source Code
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Programs are not read sequentially like a book but rather selectively like an encyclopedia. Instead of linear
text we therefore suggest non-linear active text as a medium for structuring and browsing source code.
While common program editors are mainly character based we believe that non-textual information such as
pictures, links, folds, and annotations can improve the readability of programs. In this paper we show
how a text editor can be extended to include active text elements and give examples for how to apply these
facilities to source code. Our approach is different from that of syntax-oriented editors in that our
structuring is not based on the syntax of the edited texts. The implementation was done in the Oberon
system which offers powerful mechanisms for extending software in an object-oriented way.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Journal:
SOFTWARE - Practice and Experience
Erscheinungsmonat:
7
Erscheinungsjahr:
1996
Notiz zum Zitat:
SOFTWARE - Practice & Experience, 26(7): 833-850, July 1996
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