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Pegasus First Steps Toward a Naturalistic Programming Language

Roman Knll dan Mira Mezini
OOPSLA '06: October 2226, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems,languages, and applications
ACM 1-59593-491-X/06/0010.

AHMAD PUJIANTO - P31.2014.01708

LATAR BELAKANG
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There is a gap to close between current

programming techniques on the one hand
and what we really want computers to
behave like on the other hand

IDENTIFIKASI MASALAH
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Problem
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We are forced to adjust our program idea to the conditions of a very specific
programming language
- The Programming Language Problem :
Actually implementing the Quicksort algorithm means writing a computer
program in a specific programming language
- The Natural Language Problem :
This is inefficient, since all non-native speakers of this language have to
understand and write code, commenting and documenting in another
language than the one they would be most productive with their mother
tongue
- The Technical Problem :
Developers spend most of their time implementing and debugging the
program

HIPOTESIS
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-If
were
to write computer programs in everyday
speech, this could be a key solution to solve both the
mental problem and the programming language problem.

-Programming would become easier especially for those,

who are not into computer science very much, since
there wouldn't be the necessity to learn a programming
language, at all.
-If developers were able to describe their program ideas
in natural language, there would be neither a
transformation of the program ideas to programming
language structures necessary nor would a constraining

METODOLOGI
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Modeling
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Ideas
Idea Notation
Ideas and Language
Consequences of the Model
- Characteristics of Natural Language
Compression
Implicit referencing mechanisms
Context Dependence

PENGUKURAN
Pegasus
ideas
described in a natural language, the input
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program, and to creates from it a fully executable program file, the
output program, realizing the described ideas. For instance, Pegasus
could read this natural language description:
Write three times: "I can understand you!".
and generate the following Java program, realizing the idea of the
natural language description:
class Main
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
for (int i = 0; i <= 2; i++)
System.out.println("I can " + "understand you!");
}

HASIL
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Program
ideas can be described in natural language,
using characteristic mechanisms like implicit referencing
and context dependence. Although, the amount of
sentences and words Pegasus can comprehend is very
limited at the moment, it is shown that multilingual
naturalistic programming is feasible.

Further research and development will be much broader

in order to realize Pegasus as a fully functional
naturalistic programming language in theory and
practice.