INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM

摘要

An interactive program development system which replaces compilers, linkers and debuggers required for conventional software development. The present invention includes a new program compilation system for producing a novel type of translated structure called code object (4), and an Incremental Image (6) which forms the program image from code objects and their respective intermediate language symbols stored in a persistent symbol table (5). The new program compilation system operates on a conventional computer havign a CPU, monitor, memory system and input devices. The present invention obviates the need to halt execution of a program under development or during maintenance update to correct programming errors.