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Re: parsability and human factors

From glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: parsability and human factors
Date 2015-02-08 10:32 +0000
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Derek M. Jones <derek@_nospam_knosof.co.uk> wrote:

(snip, I wrote)
>> I went to a talk, not so long ago, by someone actually studying people
>> using computer languages. It seems that many people who write papers
>> about how easy or hard they are to use don't actually do any tests
>> with real people.

> Yes, plenty of arm waving and personal opinions abound.

OK, here it is:

The talk was titled "The Programming Language Wars".

http://web.cs.unlv.edu/stefika/Papers.php

is a list of some of the papers by the author, and

paper number 7 is one people might find interesting.

The authorization system doesn't allow one to copy the link, but if
you go to the page you should be able to read it, even without an ACM
account.

There is very little research into how people actually use features in
programming languages, though all designers seem to already know
without studying.

He did actual tests with both experienced and new programmers.

-- glen

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Re: Choosing a parser for Mathematica input fateman@gmail.com - 2015-02-05 08:08 -0800
  parsability (was: Choosing a parser for Mathematica input) glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-02-06 00:05 +0000
    Re: parsability and human factors "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2015-02-07 12:45 +0000
      Re: parsability and human factors glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-02-08 10:32 +0000
        Re: parsability and human factors "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2015-02-10 12:44 +0000
    Re: parsability "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2015-02-09 00:48 +1100
      Re: parsability Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2015-02-08 20:49 +0100
        Re: parsability news@iecc.com (News Subsystem) - 2015-02-09 14:37 +1100
  Re: Choosing a parser for Mathematica input Robert Jacobson <rljacobson@gmail.com> - 2015-02-06 19:04 -0800

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