Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!ucsfcca!dick From: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: top-down editors and tracers for Pascal Message-ID: <457@ucsfcca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 07:03:35 EST Article-I.D.: ucsfcca.457 Posted: Tue Mar 18 07:03:35 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 06:06:39 EST References: <9859@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) Organization: UCSF Computer Center Lines: 22 In article <9859@ucla-cs.ARPA> rms@ucla-cs.UUCP writes: >[This article is really from John Pedersen] > >1) An intelligent editor, that not only helps students with syntax but > also promotes top-down design/implementation and discourages bad > >2) A program tracing facility that shows the lines of source code as > they are being executed (on one part of the screen) while variable > >QUESTION: Do such tools already exist (or something close), specifically Doesn't MacPascal approach this? No real help in design, but good flow and variable tracing. Dick -- Dick Karpinski Manager of Unix Services, UCSF Computer Center UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!dick (415) 476-4529 (12-7) BITNET: dick@ucsfcca Compuserve: 70215,1277 Telemail: RKarpinski USPS: U-76 UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143