[Programmatic and Direct Manipulation, Together at Last](http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02988). Ravi
Chugh, Brian Hempel, Mitchell Spradlin, and Jacob Albers. PLDI 2016.
> Introduces the idea of "prodirect manipulation" for creating visual artifacts,
> a hybrid of the direct manipulation technique used in WYSIWYG programs like
> Photoshop and PowerPoint, and the programmatic manipulation used in languages
> and libraries such as LaTeX and Processing.