Natural programming languages and environments

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 47-52

  Myers, Brad A ^a   Pane, John F ^b   Ko, Andy ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGING; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); PROGRAMMING TASKS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; TOOLS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 25844507916     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1015864.1015888     Document Type: Review

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