Integrated development environment for control language of legacy distributed control system

An integrated development environment (IDE) system comprising:

• a processing device;
• a memory;
• a user interface;
• and
• a network interface, the IDE system configured to:
• interact with a user to develop and store a control language program in the IDE system;
• during the interaction, apply one or more control language rules to identify at least one of correct syntax, incorrect syntax, semantics, and programming conventions;
• and
• during the interaction, display results of the application of the control language rules to the control language program.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium encoded with executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processing devices of integrated development environment (IDE) system to:

• interact with a user to develop and store a control language program in the IDE system;
• during the interaction, apply one or more control language rules to identify at least one of correct syntax, incorrect syntax, semantics, and programming conventions;
• and
• during the interaction, display results of the application of the control language rules to the control language program.