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-building which allow for flexibility and dynamism. It was originally created for

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, but later, was ported to other programming languages like

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, and

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History

Morphic was originally developed by Randy Smith and John Maloney for the

programming language.

Usage

Morphic is used in

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, a web programming environment under

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(originally developed by

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) which is written in

and HTML5 /

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(SVG). On a higher abstraction level Morphic is also used in the enterprise performance management toolkit of doCOUNT, based on

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. In order to serve as basis for the

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(formerly BYOB), a Morphic environment called Morphic.js was written in

by Jens Mönig using only the HTML5 Canvas APIs. Morphic is the basis for the standard user interface of

and

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References

External links

* User interface builders Smalltalk programming language family {{GUI-stub