P. J. Brown – Communications of the ACM

Research and Advances Apr 1 1983

Error messages: the neglected area of the man/machine interface

The quality of error messages produced by software used in the field was tested by a simple experiment; it was found to be far from adequate. The results of the experiment are analyzed, and some responses which tend to collaborate the original findings are discussed. Finally, some suggestions are made for improving the quality of error messages.

Computing Applications

Author Archives

Research and Advances Dec 1 1972

Levels of language for portable software

An increasing amount of software is being implemented in a portable form. A popular way of accomplishing this is to encode the software in a specially designed machine-independent language and then to map this language, often using a macro processor, into the assembly language of each desired object machine. The design of the machine-independent language is the key factor in this operation. This paper discusses the relative merits of pitching this language at a high level or a low level, and presents some comparative results.

Research and Advances Oct 1 1967

The ML/I macro processor

Systems and Networking

Research and Advances Apr 1 1962

Certification of Algorithm 71: Permutation

Research and Advances Apr 1 1962

Certification of Algorithm 35: Sieve

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