 Direct manipulation languages
started 2/1/2002; 7:32:49 AM - last post 2/4/2002; 11:14:05 PM
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Ehud Lamm - Direct manipulation languages 
2/1/2002; 7:32:49 AM (reads: 539, responses: 3)
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I am thinking of languages where the programmer can manipulate objects (usually in a graphical environemnt), study their properties etc. and insert code only where and when it is required.
Is there a better term?
Languages that come to mind: Smalltalk, Squeak morphs, VB, Hypercard/Pythoncard.
Others?
I have some vague educational ideas in mind, and I'd like a language that has name-appeal, but that empowers users early on in their learning.
(I thought that the VB/VBA connection may be interesting in this reagard).
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water - Re: Direct manipulation languages
2/3/2002; 1:05:59 PM (reads: 576, responses: 1)
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You didn't mention one of the originals, Self, as well as Prograph (which is still available). There's also the Napier88 series of languages, although there's no free version of that.
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Ehud Lamm - Re: Direct manipulation languages
2/3/2002; 1:18:22 PM (reads: 627, responses: 0)
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What's Napier88? Never heard of it (I think!)
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water - Re: Direct manipulation languages
2/4/2002; 11:14:05 PM (reads: 569, responses: 0)
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It's supposed to be here, but apparently the web site is down. Basically they developed a series of procedural/OOP languages with a virtual machine implementation. Object storage was persistent and somewhat orthogonal, and there was a direct-manipulation user interface termed a "hyper-programming" environment. One successor that comes to mind was called ProcessBase. A CiteSeer or Google search for Napier88 does return the interesting papers about it.
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