The design and implementation of a language environment for evaluating the programming task

The thesis describes the requirement, design, and implementation of a software package that can be used to perform quantitative studies on certain aspects of a programming task. Of specific interest are experiments with the level of interactiveness of the human-computer interface relating to program construction and with language design principles relating to identifier scope rules. The software package for conducting these experiments is an interactive language environment called PEEP. Its base language is Pascal and its design is based on Johnston's semantic models of computation. Storage representations and implementation of these semantic models are described. These models depicting the compile-time structure, run-time structure, and realization of the static and the dynamic scoping rules. The evolution and current research of programming environments, user interface to PEEP, and future research on PEEP are also focuses of attention.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science and Applications

Department dc:contributor.department

Computer Science and Applications

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1982

Author dc:creator

• Ku, Cyril Shiu-Chin

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87214

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/87214