shapes of a collection of parts through the interactive graphic design of one
example of this collection ("variant programming") (Roller 1990).
7. PBD and CAD
In her book
A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End-user Com-
puting,
Nardi (1993) has identified CAD as a natural candidate for end-user
programming, because these systems "allow end users to create useful ap-
plications with no more than a few hours of instruction." We will see in this
section how this can be extended to complete PBD features. First, we de-
scribe the application field of PBD in CAD, called
parametrics program- ...
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