ITR: Multiple-view Programming

提案编号：0313401TITLE：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。如果可以以多种方式查看复杂的构件，人们将更容易理解它们。一位建筑师试图描述一座建筑的设计，但她没有给她的客户一张图纸：她提供场地模型、建筑模型、平面图、立面、透视和室内景观。这些表述中的每一个都最大限度地展示了拟建建筑的某些方面，而忽略或美化了与该方面无关的细节。这个项目将尝试对程序做同样的事情。研究的第一阶段是设想观点：作为程序员，我们太习惯于平面文本，很难打开我们的思维去考虑其他可能性。第二阶段将把多种观点与现有的语言和程序开发环境相结合。通过将IT的强大力量引导到创建、理解、更改和测试软件本身的问题上，我们相信我们可以开始一场软件生产的革命，这场革命就像IT在我们社会的几乎所有其他活动中所创造的革命一样全面。

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.