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Discovering the way programmers think about new programming environments

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 38 , Issue 6 (June 1995) table of contents

Pages: 45 - 56

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:0001-0782

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Joseph Dumas	American Institutes for Research, 70 Westview St. Lexington, MA
Paige Parsons	Apple Computer, 1 Main Street, 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

An interesting usability study of a prototype development environment for the Dylan programming language is presented here. This study's purpose is to determine just how close the prototype is to developers. New approaches to source code organization and to the relationship between the environment and the application being developed are introduced. An asessment of how effectively the prototype conveys these innovations to Dylan developers is also given, followed by some proposed improvements.

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