ACE: A Cliché-based Program Structure Editor

ACE extends the syntax-directed paradigm of program editing by adding sup- port for programming clichis. A programming clich6 is a standard algorithmic fragment. ACE supports the rapid construction of programs through the combination of clich6s se- lected from a clich6 library. ACE is also innovative in the way it supports the basic structure editor operations. Instead of being based directly on the grammar for a programming language, ACE is based on a modified grammar which is designed to facilitate editing. Uniformity of the user interface is achieved by encoding the modified grammar as a set of clichis.

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