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As programming environments begin to mature researchers recognize the need to improve both their user interface and performance. The traditional command and batch oriented systems represent a poor match for the human cognitive system, which is very visually oriented and “computes” incrementally. This paper explores these latter two important aspects in the context of programming environments. A data-oriented system is a system in which users interact directly with system data (view and manipulate), instead of using a complex set of commands. Incremental systems are designed to improve performance by limiting computation to a restricted set of system data in response to a small — incremental — modification to this data.
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Henderson, P.B. (1987). Data-oriented incremental programming environments. In: Conradi, R., Didriksen, T.M., Wanvik, D.H. (eds) Advanced Programming Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17189-4_84
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