ITR: Multiple-view Programming

题目：多视图编程pi: Andrew P. blackabstract该项目旨在将程序员从将程序表示为线性文本流中解放出来，并实现一种本质上不同的编程方式。如果能够以多种方式查看复杂的工件，人们就更容易理解它们。试图描述建筑设计的建筑师不会给客户一张图纸：她会提供场地模型、建筑模型、平面图、立面图、透视图和室内视图。每一种表达方式都以最佳方式展示了拟建建筑的某些方面，同时忽略或掩盖了与该方面无关的细节。本项目将尝试为程序做同样的事情。研究的第一阶段是设想视图：作为程序员，我们已经习惯了平面文本，很难打开我们的思维去接受其他的可能性。第二阶段将与现有语言和程序开发环境集成多个视图。通过引导IT的强大力量来解决创建、理解、更改和测试软件本身的问题，我们相信我们可以在软件生产中开始一场革命，这场革命就像IT在我们社会中几乎所有其他活动中所创造的革命一样无所不。

Proposal Number: 0313401TITLE: Multi-view ProgrammingPI: Andrew P. BlackABSTRACTThis project aims to liberate programmers from representing programs as linear streams of text, and to enable a qualitatively different way of programming.People understand complex artifacts more easily if they can be viewed in multiple ways. An architect seeking to describe the design of a building does not give her client a single drawing: she provides site models, building models, plans, elevations, perspectives and interior views. Each of these representations shows some aspect of the proposed building to best advantage, while ignoring or glossing over details that are irrelevant to that aspect. This project will attempt to do the same thing for programs.The first phase of the research is envisioning the views: as programmers we are so used to flat text that it is hard to open our minds to other possibilities. The second phase will integrate multiple views with existing languages and program development environments.By directing the awesome power of IT to the problems of creating, understanding, changing, and testing software itself, we believe that we can begin a revolution in software production that is just as all-encompassing as the revolution that IT has created in almost every other activity in our society.