Paper Info
Title
Programming Language Design and Software Quality
Abstract
When designing a programming language, one essential fact must be remembered: programmers are humans, with the human penchant for making mistakes. Are there ways that the design of a programming language can help overcome our human weaknesses, by allowing the implementation to catch, at compile-time, many of the kinds of mistakes we make, or failing that, at run-time? This talk will discuss some of the techniques that can be used during language design to make typical mistakes easier to detect, and thereby help programmers achieve a higher level of quality at an earlier stage in the life-cycle of an application. The talk will include examples from various recent programming language designs, including C++, Eiffel, Ada 95, and Java.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/TOOLS.1999.10036
TOOLS (30)
Keywords
Field
DocType
software quality
Programming language specification,Programming language,Software engineering,Computer science,Fourth-generation programming language,Natural language programming,Very high-level programming language,High-level programming language,First-generation programming language,Low-level programming language,Programming language implementation
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0278-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Tucker Taft15014.12