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Practical language-based editing for software engineers

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Language-based editing systems have the potential to become a practical, central, and powerful part of every software engineer's toolkit, but progress has been limited by inattention to user-centered design issues. Major usability requirements for such systems include familiar, unrestricted text editing; coherent user interaction with software; rich, dynamic information display; multiple alternative views; uninterrupted service in the presence of ill-formedness, incompleteness, and inconsistency; description-driven support for multiple languages; and extensibility and customizability. Solutions require better understanding of software engineers and their tasks, appropriate design metaphors, new architectural organizations, and design for adaptation and extension.

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Van De Vanter, M.L. (1995). Practical language-based editing for software engineers. In: Taylor, R.N., Coutaz, J. (eds) Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction. SE-HCI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035821

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