Treffer: Program Design by Informal English Descriptions.

A technique is presents for developing programs from informal but praise English descriptions. The technique shows how to derive data types from common nouns, variables from direct references operators from verbs and attributes, and control structures from their English equivalents. The primary contribution is the proposed relationships between common nouns and data types the others follow directly. Ada is used as the target programming language because it has useful program design constructs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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