PYGMALION: A Creative Programming Environment

Abstract

PYGMALION is a two-dimensional, visual programming system implemented on an interactive computer with graphics display. Communication between human being and computer is by means of visual entities called icons, subsuming the notions of variable, reference, data structure, function and picture. The heart of the system is an interactive remembering editor for icons, which executes and (Optionally) saves operations for later reexecution. The display screen is viewed as a document to be edited. Programming consists of recreating a sequence of display frames, the last of which contains the desired information. Display frames are modified by editing operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA016811

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  • David Canfield Smith

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  • Stanford University

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  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Geometry
  • Machine Languages
  • Mental Processes
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Thinking
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

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