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eBook - Visual Programming Environments {w/ reference to the HP-65} - SlideRule - 07-09-2024 10:07 PM An excerpt from Visual Programming Environments paradigms & systems, page 236 Defining Iconic Functions         Iconic functions can be defined in PYGMALION by executing the BODY operation in the menu. Basically this entails putting the system in "remember" mode and then doing the calculation to be performed by the function. This is precisely the "dynamic programming" philosophy of the Unimate robot, HP-65 calculator and the Perlman Button Box: the programmer "teaches" the machine a procedure by doing it once. The following are the steps necessary to complete a function.         (1) Create an icon. …         (2) Give the icon a symbolic name. …         (3) Create sub-icons … to hold individual arguments …         (4) START REMEMBERING         (5) DO THE COMPUTATION ONCE         (6) Create sub-icons … to hold the values computed …         (7) STOP REMEMBERING BEST! SlideRule