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The Computer Journal 1979 22(2):105-109; doi:10.1093/comjnl/22.2.105
© 1979 by British Computer Society
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A. T. Arblaster1 *, M. E. Sime2 and T. R. G. Green2

1 Logica Ltd., 64 Newman St., London, UK, 2 MRC Unit for Social and Applied Psychology, The University, Sheffield, UK

An outline history of the programming language conditional is given, followed by a description of some experiments to find which form of conditional is easier to use. Experiments on whether improved teaching methods and structure aids can help users of programming languages with conditional GOTOs to write and debug their programs more easily are then described. It is concluded that behavioural experiments on programming languages can be useful to the language designer, and that the teaching of desirable program structure, rather than just programming language structure, is useful to the student.

Received May 1978.

* Now of Logica Ltd, 64 Newman St., London W1 4SE.

§ MRC Unit for Social and Applied Psychology, The University, Sheffield S10 2TN


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