2015 Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT)
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Abstract

Programming into graphs of a new generation offers not to write, but to draw the programs throughout their entire lifetime using the graphs from mathematics in which only horizontal arcs are loaded (ISO 8631:1989). Drawing is easier and faster, especially for the touch screen. All the traditional (since 1947) machine-oriented operators like if, for, while, repeat, case, goto, and labels and brackets like begin-end are excluded from programming. They became outdated. They are too many, complicated, empirical (not strictly defined) and low capacious for a human, and provide a primitive mechanical technology of programming. To neutralize their drawbacks a human makes much efforts creating a huge amount of languages, systems and programming environments that are "supposedly easier," but in fact divide the specialists and make programming extremely complicated, not evolutional and inaccessible to many people. Instead of all these things, the only one (mathematically rigorous) graphical and human-oriented entity (R-scheme) is offered. In average, less than one (less than 0.2) click on mouth button or the keyboard is required for entering this entity to a machine. As a result, up to 60% of superfluous symbols, keywords, punctuation marks, typographic symbols etc. are excluded from the traditional program. Graphics program in R-schemes is 100 or more times compact and incomparably more visual compared with the traditionally recorded programs. Consequently, the process of programming is simplified, accelerated and improved repeatedly, has a proof of correctness, self-documentation and documentation of motivation of the decisions made, mathematical derivation and automatic generation of the programs and tests for these programs. Continuity with in the first place of program libraries is maintained. New horizons of industrial development of the large programs are open. For the first time programming receives the mathematical basis (culture) and becomes accessible to everyone, but not only to the computer programmers.
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