Report on the CHI'91 workshop on languages for developing user interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Brad A. Myers

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

In his keynote address to the SIGCHI'90 conference, Michael Dertouzos said:When computers first appeared, input/output commands were a minor afterthought to cohesive, often well crafted and occasionally pretentious programming languages. Today, these commands occupy over 70 percent of a programming system's instructions. Yet they, along with the user interface structures that they define, are far from cohesive, and, at least up until now, immune to standardization. We must therefore turn our thinking around and create a new breed of programming languages that are first and foremost input/output oriented and that integrate traditional processing commands into new user-oriented structures. And just as we know today that traditional commands fall into a handful of fixed categories---decision, repetition, naming, procedure definition and use---we need to search for and identify the corresponding natural classes of commands for user interfaces. [Dertouzos 90]