Natural Programming Language

Natural programming languages and environments

Communications of the ACM September 2004/Vol. 47, No. 9 by Brad A. Myers, John F. Pane, Andy Ko

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=225

(the above link goes to an article by Jef Raskin. It seems the correct article is available here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/Myers2004NaturalProgramming.pdf)

This article presents findings on natural (i.e. intuitive in the UserCentric? way) programming languages.

It advocates features for programming languages, that are justified by these findings. Areas include:

• SyntacticSugar, that causes fewer errors (it more intuitive/natural).
• Better integrated debugging-support, esp. for hypotheses about bug-causes.

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