A FORTH System for Window-Style Programming

• Main Authors: Lu, Shu-chang, 盧豎昌
• Other Authors: Heh-Tyan Liaw
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34871324843277719642

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 86 === Window operating environments have overwhelming advantages over traditional command-line environments. Yet there is no programming environment that utilizes the complete power of window-interface in programming so that a programmer still have to key-in source programs by keyboard. FORTH language provides an interactive programming environment, which tightly combines all the coding, compiling, testing, and debugging phases. A user can work in an environment with on-line incremental programming/compiling to speed-up their software development. Furthermore, the interactive feature of FORTH is especially suited to the window interface. The TKU Forth (abbreviated as TkF) is presented in this thesis, which combines the window-interface and enforced FORTH syntax, and provides a convenient environment to achieve more efficient productivity via window styleoperations. Furthermore, TkF supports geometric processing, and enables users to input geometric data in an active way and to manipulate them freely.