A User-Centred Approach to Functions in Excel

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ICFP

Volumn 8, Issue , 2003, Pages 165-176

  Jones, Simon Peyton ^a   Blackwell, Alan ^b   Burnett, Margaret ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Languages

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MACROS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SUBROUTINES; SYNTACTICS; UTILITY PROGRAMS; VISCOSITY;

COGINITIVE DIMENSIONS (CD); FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS;

SPREADSHEETS;

EID: 1142275473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/944705.944721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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