Rapid prototyping in an object-oriented pictorial dataflow environment

Object-oriented programming is proving to be quite useful in several areas which have not been served well by more conventional languages. Rapid prototyping is one such area in which the object-oriented approach shows great promise. Adding pictorial features to an object-oriented environment greatly facilitates the display of the various objects, methods, and relationships involved in the system. Combining this with a dataflow language results in a system which is nearly ideal for the rapid prototyping of software systems utilizing dataflow diagrams. Prograph is a language which sports all three of these features. The authors present an overview of a rapid prototyping effort, in Prograph, of a fairly complex software system in which the prototype was quickly and easily designed from the system dataflow diagrams