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Human Factors Comparison of a Procedural and a Nonprocedural Query Language.

Charles Welty, David W. Stemple: Human Factors Comparison of a Procedural and a Nonprocedural Query Language. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 6(4): 626-649(1981)
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  author    = {Charles Welty and
               David W. Stemple},
  title     = {Human Factors Comparison of a Procedural and a Nonprocedural
               Query Language},
  journal   = {ACM Trans. Database Syst.},
  volume    = {6},
  number    = {4},
  year      = {1981},
  pages     = {626-649},
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  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
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Abstract

Two experiments testing the ability of subjects to write queries in two different query languages were run. The two languages, SQL and TABLET, differ primarily in their procedurality; both languages use the relational data model, and their Halstead levels are similar. Constructs in the languages which do not affect their procedurality are identical. The two languages were learned by the experimental subjects almost exclusively from manuals presenting the same examples and problems ordered identically for both languages. The results of the experiments show that subjects using the more procedural language wrote difficult queries better than subjects using the less procedural language. The results of the experiments are also used to compare corresponding constructs in the two languages and to recommend improvements for these constructs.

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