Questions and responsibilities for the programming language community. A large scale study of multiple programming languages. Or does it arise from the differences in authoring decisions made by the writers of these natural and programming language texts. Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to novice computer science students in the field. Im much more willing to accept cumbersome syntax in a predictable language than the opposite. An empirical study on the usage of the swift programming. Programming languages and learning quorum programming. Lutz prechelt, barbara unger, michael philippsen, and walter tichy. The empirical studies and programming tools presented. For this article, we conducted four empirical studies on programming language syntax as part of a larger analysis into the, so called, programming language. A controlled experiment on inheritance depth as a cost factor for code maintenance. Inproceedings of the 2014 acm international symposium on new ideas, new paradigms, and. In this study, we perform a large scale empirical investigation to provide some answers. Evidence about programmers for programming language.
Our first empirical investigation on approximately 1. An empirical investigation of opportunistic programming. Teaching programming shouldnt really start with a language anyway, so that i reject intuitivity for beginners as a good metric for programming language design. An empirical investigation into programming language syntax andreas stefik and susanna siebert no pdf found unfortunately these authors are designing a language themselves and they were curious about the quality of the language. Acm transactions on computing education toce, 4, 19. An empirical investigation into programming language syntax. An empirical investigation into programming language syntax andreas stefik, university of nevada, las vegas susanna siebert, the genome institute, washington university school of medicine recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a signi. There is a large number of programming languages avail able to develop different. Empirical evaluation of programming and programming. We followed up with two studies on the accuracy rates of novices using a total of six programming languages. Does the difference simply arise from the syntactic limitations of programming languages. What were the results stefan will tell us in his next briefing thursday.
The programming language syntax, which forms part of a larger analysis of different programming languages, has been identified to be able to reduce the gap between programming languages 24. Some languages do this better than other, but as a principle i think it is good. An empirical comparison of the accuracy rates of novices using. While this syntax barrier is known to exist, whether and how it varies across programming languages has not been carefully investigated. Acm transactions on computing education, 4, article 19 november 20, 40 pages. Code corpora, as observed in large software systems, are now known to be far more repetitive and predictable than natural language corpora. For this article, we conducted four empirical studies on programming language syntax as part of a larger analysis into the, so called, programming language wars. A comparative study of programming languages in rosetta. An empirical study on the usage of the swift programming language. Siebert, an empirical investigation into programming language syntax, acm transactions on computing education, vol. Studying the difference between natural and programming.
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