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CA 1310423
COMPUTER BASED WORKSTATION FOR LANGUAGE-FREE DEVELOPMENT OF EXECUTABLE SOFTWARE Abstract of the Disclosure A workstation that employs new, revolutionary methods to construct computer programs automatically. It uses only visual graphical representations. The methods are language free except for labels and comments. In addition to eliminating language, the workstation completely eliminates separate compilers, linkers, and debuggers. Computer programs are illustrated as visual road maps of the intended sequence of actions. Each operational entity in a program graph on the screen is represented as an elemental "atomic" unit, called a "Softron". The Softron is a multidimensional, graphical "atom" of programming information which has four modes of operation, termed "layers". The four layers are Normal, where the basic functionality of the application resides; Initialization/Reset, responsible both for the startup values of important variables and for their values at strategic checkpoints; Error, which handles conditions outside design limits; and Input/Output, which performs human input/output and other I/O tasks. Softrons reside in very general form in the workstation's library, and are optimized by the process of specialization. Softrons may be grouped to form new Softrons by a process called Logical Zoom (TM), Logically Zoomed Softrons may combine with other Softrons to form a computer program of arbitrary complexity.
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Gendron Robert F.
Ionescu Tudor V.
Stacy E. Webb Jr.
Smart & Biggar
Softron Inc.
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