A Visual Programming Environment for Functional Languages
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AUTHOR NAME
Joel Kelso
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AUTHOR AFFIL
This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of; Murdoch University
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AUTHOR ADDR
2002
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ABSTRACT
I declare that this thesis is my own account of my research and contains as its main content work which has not previously been submitted for a degree at any tertiary education institution. Joel Kelso ii The purported advantages of Visual Programming, as applied to general purpose programming languages, have remained largely unfulfilled. The essence of this thesis is that functional programming languages have at least one natural visual representation, and that a useful programming environment can be based upon this representation. This thesis describes the implementation of a Visual Functional Programming Environment (VFPE). The programming environment has several significant features. • The environment includes a program editor that is inherently