On the Limits of Making Programming Easy

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08187-2_11" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08187-2_11</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08187-2_11" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-032-08187-2_11</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

On the Limits of Making Programming Easy

Original language description

A lot of programming research shares the same basic motivation: how can we make programming easier? Alas, this problem is difficult to tackle directly. Programming is a tangle of conceptual models, programming languages, user interfaces and more and we cannot advance all of these at the same time. Moreover, we have no good metric for measuring whether programming is easy. As a result, we usually give up on the original motivation and pursue narrow tractable research for which there is a rigorous methodology. In this paper, we investigate the limits of making programming easy. We use a dialectic method to circumscribe the design space within which easier programming systems may exist. In doing so, we not only bring together ideas on open-source software, self-sustainable systems, visual programming languages, but also the analysis of limits by Fred Brooks in his classic &quot;No Silver Bullet&quot; essay. We sketch a possible path towards easier programming of the future, but more importantly, we argue for the importance of proto-theories as a method for tackling the original motivating basic research question.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISBN

978-3-032-08186-5

Number of pages of the result

19

Pages from-to

215-233

Number of pages of the book

263

Publisher name

Springer Cham

Place of publication

Heidelberg

UT code for WoS chapter

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