This paper presents three strategies – host-independence, domain-specificity, and context-appropriate abstraction – for the design of a textual programming environment supporting computational architectural design that more effectively addresses the needs implied by common practices within this community.

A survey of existing computational design environments is first presented through the lens of these three strategies. An outline is then presented for a platform-independent computational geometry library built upon each ofthese strategies, alongside a report of progress made on implementing this platform thus far.

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