Evaluating the Usability of Programming Languages

Posted 2009-08-15

From Lambda the Ultimate to Phil Wadler’s blog to a link that was working yesterday, but is 404’ing this morning: a workshop on evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools, to be held at OOPSLA in late October. Scope includes:

empirical studies of programming languages
methodologies and philosophies behind language and tool evaluation
software design metrics and their relations to the underlying language
user studies of language features and software engineering tools
visual techniques for understanding programming languages
critical comparisons of programming paradigms, such as object-oriented vs. functional
tools to support evaluating programming languages

Long overdue, and very welcome.