ITR: Multiple-view Programming

提案编号：0313401标题：多视图编程PI：Andrew P. Black这个项目的目的是将程序员从线性文本流的形式中解放出来，并使编程方式有质的不同。如果可以以多种方式查看复杂的工件，人们就更容易理解它们。一个建筑师试图描述一个建筑的设计，并不给她的客户一个单一的图纸：她提供网站模型，建筑模型，平面图，立面图，透视图和内部视图。这些表示中的每一个都最大限度地展示了拟议建筑的某些方面，同时忽略或掩盖了与该方面无关的细节。 这个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，我们太习惯于平面文本，很难打开我们的思想去接受其他的可能性。第二阶段将把多种观点与现有的语言和程序开发环境结合起来。通过将IT的强大力量引导到创建、理解、改变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，这场革命与IT在我们社会中几乎所有其他活动中所创造的革命一样包罗万象。

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.