The holy war of modeling notations - what fits best and why?
summary
Argument: mixed notations win when they edit a single AST and update every view. Built a browser-based projectional prototype called Convector that ties EMF-style models to synchronized textual, graphical and outline views, shows live multi-user edits like Google Docs, and supports formulas, decision tables and math notation. Uses Xtext/Theia/Sirius-era ideas and projectional techniques (MPS-like) to generate C from insurance formulas. Demo works live but remains early stage; performance and full-scale versioning claims are promising but not yet quantified.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:47The early years...
- 1:05The Dark Years
- 5:20Graphical
- 14:15Human readable code?
- 15:23How about graphics?
- 16:12A little bit of math...
- 16:58Hmmm... Decisions?
- 17:33Decision trees?
- 17:47Excel-like?
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