LavaPE is a programming environment for the experimental object-oriented programming language Lava. The application replaces text editing with structure editing, thereby preventing all syntactic and many semantic errors.
The pure point-and-click nature of Lava programming and the concise representation of programs as declaration trees with small chunks of executable code simplify programming, and ease comprehension.
The new Lava language attempts to combine the advantages of either, and also to propose solutions to a number of fundamental problems that are hard to solve and that have been more or less ignored therefore by other languages so far.
Clearly this cannot be achieved by essentially combining individual features of Java and Visual Basic and by adding further features. A completely new language had to be developed from scratch.
Lava attempts to overcome the "ancient" programming technology that is based on text editors and that requires detailed knowledge and meticulous observation of the syntactic rules of the respective language.
Structure editing has many advantages over text editing and has the potential to considerably increase the programmers' productivity.
The conceptual framework of object-orientation can still be improved considerably in several respects:
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