BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: STAN//CS-TR-78-663 ENTRY:: June 22, 1995 ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science TITLE:: Software restyling in graphics and programming languages TYPE:: Technical Report AUTHOR:: Grosse, Eric H. DATE:: September 1978 PAGES:: 34 ABSTRACT:: The value of large software products can be cheaply increased by adding restyled interfaces that attract new users. As examples of this approach, a set of graphics primitives and a language precompiler for scientific computation are described. These two systems include a general user-defined coordinate system instead of numerous system settings, indention to specify block structure, a modified indexing convention for array parameters, a syntax for n-and-a-half-times-'round loops, and engineering format for real constants; most of all, they strive to be as small as possible. NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950622] END:: STAN//CS-TR-78-663