BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-73-403
       ENTRY:: September 25, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Hints on programming language design.
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Hoare, C. A. R.
        DATE:: December 1973
       PAGES:: 30
    ABSTRACT:: This paper (based on a keynote address presented at the
               SIGACT/SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming
               Languages, Boston, October 1-3, 1973) presents the view that
               a programming language is a tool which should assist the
               programmer in the most difficult aspects of his art, namely
               program design, documentation, and debugging. It discusses
               the objective criteria for evaluating a language design, and
               illustrates them by application to language features of both
               high level languages and machine code programming. It
               concludes with an annotated reading list, recommended for all
               intending language designers.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950925]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-73-403