Programming in Natural English.

Abstract

College students were asked to type detailed specifications of procedures in their natural language (English) as solutions for a set of six file manipulation problems. The language productions were examined from the points of view of solution correctness, preferences of expression, contextual referencing, word usage, and formal programming languages.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 15, 1974
Accession Number
ADA003923

Entities

People

  • Curtis A. Becker
  • Lance A. Miller

Organizations

  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Production
  • Programming Languages
  • Schools
  • Specifications
  • Students
  • Universities

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