The Application of Model Matching Principle in User Interface Design: Part 2
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Zhang, Liang
uiGarden
2008

Abstract:

For programmers, a programming language is a software tool. Its interface consists of its lexicon, grammar and semantic rules. From this view, using a language to do programming is actually using that tool to accomplish something. As we will see shortly, different languages vary greatly in the degree of how they get close to programmer's conceptual model.