The design of a visual language compiler

The author presents design considerations for the Visual Language Compiler being developed at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. The Visual Language Compiler uses precedence analysis for both spatial parsing and semantic analysis. It also uses a knowledge base to store all kinds of semantic information. Applications of the Visual Language Compiler are discussed.<<ETX>>

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