Seven deadly sins of introductory programming language design

Proceedings - 1996 International Conference Software Engineering: Education and Practice, SEEP 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 309-316

  McIver, L ^a   Conway, D ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISP (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MODULA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYNTACTICS;

ERROR DIAGNOSIS; HASKELL; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; LANGUAGE DESIGN; LESS IS MORES; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; ORTHOGONAL SETS;

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 85015988377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEEP.1996.534015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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