Interactive Ada™ in the Arcturus environment
Thomas A. Standish · ACM SIGAda Ada Letters · 1983
A RCTURUS offers an approach to the integrated use of compiled and interpreted Ada, template-driven Ada text editing, an Ada Program Design Language (PDL), Ada program performance measurement with color profiles, formatted printing of Ada programs with useful listing options, and automated stepwise refinement from Ada program designs written in Ada PDL into executable Ada. This paper has two objectives : (a) to provide a two page thumbnai l sketch of some interactive Ada capabilities in A RCTURUS , and (b) to provide a detailed scenario of interactive Ada programming at the very simplest level, using Ada-oriented variants of interactive programming techniques that have proven effective in practice --- th e hope being that the reader will be convinced that interactive Ada is an idea worth vigorous further pursuit.