An extensible interpreter for experimentation with the semantics of Prograph

Author

De Roure, D. ; MacLean, Stuart ; Glaser, Hugh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Sep 1998

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

77

Abstract

We describe a prototype tool to assist in the design of the semantics of a visual language based on dataflow, by interpreting an object-oriented representation of a visual program according to a set of semantic rules. The interpreter is written in Scheme and adopts a continuation-passing approach in order to model control flow; it is itself object-oriented and can be readily extended. We use the object-oriented dataflow language Prograph as a case study

Keywords

data flow computing; functional programming; object-oriented languages; parallel languages; program interpreters; visual languages; Prograph semantics; Scheme; case study; continuation-passing approach; control flow modelling; extensible interpreter; object-oriented dataflow language; object-oriented representation; visual language; Computer languages; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Data structures; Electrical capacitance tomography; Programming environments; Programming profession; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Halifax, NS

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8712-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1998.706141

Filename

706141