The Rational Programmer: Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics

The rational-programmer method is the first reasonably general approach for assessing whether linguistic features and tools can deliver helpful information with software development tasks.

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Communications of the ACM
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2025-06-11
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3708981
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Logic, programming, and type systems
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The Rational Programmer: Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics

Matthias Felleisen, Christos Dimoulas
Communications of the ACM
Logic, programming, and type systems
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The Rational Programmer: Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics

Matthias Felleisen, Christos Dimoulas
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Abstract

The rational-programmer method is the first reasonably general approach for assessing whether linguistic features and tools can deliver helpful information with software development tasks.

Communications of the ACMVol. 68(7)
Northwestern University (US), Northeastern University (US)
National Science Foundation
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Logic, programming, and type systems
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