Subtext: Uncovering the Simplicity of Programming (2005)
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| Venue: | IN OOPSLA ’05: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL ACM SIGPLAN CONFERENCE ON OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, SYSTEMS, LANGUAGES, AND APPLICATIONS |
| Citations: | 20 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Edwards05subtext:uncovering,
author = {Jonathan Edwards},
title = {Subtext: Uncovering the Simplicity of Programming},
booktitle = {IN OOPSLA ’05: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL ACM SIGPLAN CONFERENCE ON OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, SYSTEMS, LANGUAGES, AND APPLICATIONS},
year = {2005},
pages = {505--518},
publisher = {ACM}
}
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Abstract
Representing programs as text strings makes programming harder then it has to be. The source text of a program is far removed from its behavior. Bridging this conceptual gulf is what makes programming so inhumanly difficult -- we are not compilers. Subtext is a new medium in which the representation of a program is the same thing as its execution. Like a spreadsheet, a program is visible and alive, constantly executing even as it is edited. Program edits are coherent semantic transformations. The essence of
