"Who Cares about Elegance?" The Role of Aesthetics in Programming Language Design

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 33-37

  MacLennan, Bruce J ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Analysis; Economy; Efficiency; Elegance; Feature interaction; Pedagogy; Programming language design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347141311     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/251634.251637     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Billington, David P., The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Chapters 1 and 6 are the most relevant.
2. MacLennan, Bruce J., Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation, second edition, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (now Oxford University Press), 1987.