Multi-Lingual End-User Programming with XML

There is no ideal programing language. Each is better suited to some tasks rather than others. This suitability varies not only with the overall goal of the finished program, but also with different stages of development such as architectural design, detailed implementation, and maintenance. The situation is even more acute in the case of end-user programming languages, which cater for a much more varied user population. It would therefore be advantageous to allow the same program to be viewed, and edited, in a number of different languages. We have developed a system, Lingua Franca, that provides this facility for end-user programming languages in the setting of ubiquitous computing in the home.

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