The software offers interactive applications for users to engage with, allowing for a more engaging and immersive experience. These applications allow users to participate in various activities and simulations, enhancing their overall knowledge and understanding of the subject matter.
Scriptic is a software that traces its scientific and technological roots back to the 1950s, with the publication of work on formal automata by Stephen Cole Kleene. This eventually led to the concept of regular expressions. Another key development was the notation to express context-free grammars, called Backus Naur Form, which was developed in the 1960s by John Backus and Peter Naur. In 1962, the first version of the programming language Simula was defined, which would become the first object oriented language, supporting notions of parallelism and simulation time.
In the 1970s, the concept of path expressions was introduced by Roy Campbell and Nico Haberman, which provided a mechanism for expressing permitted sequences of execution inspired by regular expressions. This was followed by three more algebraic formalisms in the 1980s, including Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) by Tony Hoare, Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS) by Robin Milner, and Algebra of Communicating Processes (ACP) by Jan Bergstra and Jan Willem Klop.
Meanwhile, on the practical side, the Input Tool Model (ITM) was developed by Jan van den Bos and team, which applied the concept of path expressions to the specification of input patterns for interactive applications. This led to the development of Input Output Tool model (IOT) which was implemented as a programming language extension to C, Pascal and Modula-2.
In 1987, Andre van Delft modified the ITM implementation so that not only input actions but also internal and output actions could be placed in the path expressions. This resulted in Scriptic-Pascal which was later transformed into versions based on Modula-2, C and C++. The language gradually became based on the Algebra of Communicating Processes while offering additional constructs for actions with a given duration and iterations.
Around 1990, Scriptic was meant to be a simulation language that could also be useful for the specification of GUI behavior. However, it was only used in a few research projects. In 1996, a new version based on Java was developed which offered support for multithreading. For several years, Scriptic was not widely used, until Andre van Delft noticed the emerging spaghetti problem in his daily work as a software developer. He adapted Scriptic to better express event handling and threading issues, and in 2009, a new version went open source.
In the 1970s, the concept of path expressions was introduced by Roy Campbell and Nico Haberman, which provided a mechanism for expressing permitted sequences of execution inspired by regular expressions. This was followed by three more algebraic formalisms in the 1980s, including Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) by Tony Hoare, Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS) by Robin Milner, and Algebra of Communicating Processes (ACP) by Jan Bergstra and Jan Willem Klop.
Meanwhile, on the practical side, the Input Tool Model (ITM) was developed by Jan van den Bos and team, which applied the concept of path expressions to the specification of input patterns for interactive applications. This led to the development of Input Output Tool model (IOT) which was implemented as a programming language extension to C, Pascal and Modula-2.
In 1987, Andre van Delft modified the ITM implementation so that not only input actions but also internal and output actions could be placed in the path expressions. This resulted in Scriptic-Pascal which was later transformed into versions based on Modula-2, C and C++. The language gradually became based on the Algebra of Communicating Processes while offering additional constructs for actions with a given duration and iterations.
Around 1990, Scriptic was meant to be a simulation language that could also be useful for the specification of GUI behavior. However, it was only used in a few research projects. In 1996, a new version based on Java was developed which offered support for multithreading. For several years, Scriptic was not widely used, until Andre van Delft noticed the emerging spaghetti problem in his daily work as a software developer. He adapted Scriptic to better express event handling and threading issues, and in 2009, a new version went open source.
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