License: Freeware
Downloads: 0
Op. System: Windows XP/Linux
Last updated: 2011-07-05
File size: 445 KB
Publisher: Boaz Rosenan

Publisher description for Cedalion

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Cedalion is a programming language, probably unlike any programming language you've seen before. When you think about programming languages, you probably think of text files, with lines written in some syntax that has been determined by someone you don't know, for reasons you don't always understand. If you get the syntax wrong, you'll get a compilation error, or a runtime error. The language itself does not have the power to help you get it right from the start. There are tools and IDEs (such as some Eclipse-based editors) that help you with that, but at the end of the day, you're using a text editor to enter your code in text, hoping the language tools will understand what you meant... And it's not only that. The syntax of most programming languages is fixed. If Java has syntax for expressing classes and methods, it is a good language to write any kind of software that can be easily expressed using classes and methods. However, not everything can. For example, hierarchical state-machines do not map nicely to classes. It is certainly not hard to implement a hierarchical state machine in a language such as Java, just that the state-machine terminology will be expressed using Java constructs, making it sometimes hard to understand and to modify. Cedalion is different. First, it is different in the FACT that Cedalion code is not edited in a text file, and not using a text editor. Cedalion is a programming language that is bundled with a projectional editor. With the Cedalion projectional editor code is entered as a hierarchy of language constructs, and not as a stream of characters. It is impossible to make syntax errors in Cedalion, because there is no syntax - at least not in the usual sense. Instead of having you write the code in the correct syntax, Cedalion allows you to select syntactic elements, and then renders the code in a nice syntax so that the code is easy to understand.

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