DesignScript: a domain specific language for architectural computing
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Abstract
DesignScript is a multi-paradigm domain-specific end-user language and modelling environment for architectural and engineering computation. DesignScript implements both visual data flow programming and imperative programming. The novice user initially develops his data flow program through the familiar visual programming environment. This environment is effectively an intuitive user interface masking the underlying DesignScript language. The DesignScript language and its related user interface addresses three issues: the domain specific requirements of architectural and engineering computing, the scalability issues encountered when visual data flow programming is applied to complex design scenarios and the abstraction barriers encountered when users transition from data flow to imperative programming.
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DesignScript: A Domain Specific Language for Architectural Computing The following annotated presentation is based on the material presented by the authors at DSM 2016 and DSLDI 2016
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Ivan Sutherland “Sketchpad” MIT (1963).
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Richard Rush “The Building Systems Integration Handbook” AIA (1986)
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REPL _ {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop}
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DesignScript summary user manual: {http://aucache.autodesk.com/au2012/sessionsFiles/3286/5471/handout_3286_DesignScript_summary_user_manual.pdf }
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DesignScript tutorial as implemented with the Dynamo UI {http://dynamoprimer.com/en/07_Code-Block/7_Code-Blocks-and-Design-Script.html}
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John Hennessey, David Patterson “Computer Architecture, a Qualitative Approach 5th Edition”, Morgan Kaufmann (2014)
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Brad Myer “Making Programming Easier by Making it More Natural” (2002) {http://giove.isti.cnr.it/projects/EUDNET/slides-workshop/MyersEUP02Italy.ppt}
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October 2016
57 pages
ISBN:9781450348942
DOI:10.1145/3023147
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- Juha-Pekka Tolvanen,
- Jeff Gray,
- Matti Rossi,
- Jonathan Sprinkle
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