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Programmable applications: interpreter meets interface

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, Volume 27, Issue 2

Pages 68 - 93

https://doi.org/10.1145/202511.202528

Published: 01 April 1995 Publication History

Abstract

Current fashion in "user-friendly" software design tends to place an over-reliance on direct manipulation interfaces. To be truly expressive (and thus truly user-friendly), applications need both learnable interfaces and domain-enriched languages that are accessible to the user. This paper discusses some of the design issues that arise in the creation of such programmable applications. As an example, we present "SchemePaint," a graphics application that combines a MacPaint-like interface with an interpreter for (a "graphics-enriched") Scheme.

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Volume 27, Issue 2

April 1995

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ISSN:0736-6906

DOI:10.1145/202511

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