FreeComputerBooks.com Using natural language as a metaphoric base for object-oriented modeling and programming - AC Alistair A.R. Cockburn Originally printed as IBM Technical Report TR-36.00021 May 1, 1992 ABSTRACT: This paper proposes natural language as a strong and intuitive metaphor to extend object oriented’s metaphor of interacting objects. We consider natural language as a metaphor rather than a programming language. The purpose is to capture the simple cognitive structures that people use to build and manipulate their models of the world, and allow programmers to use those same cognitive structures to create and manipulate program models. Nouns and verbs are already found in the object model, but adjectives and adverbs are not. 0. Object-oriented programming began with a strong and intuitive metaphorical base for a rather abstract activity, programming, but has become enmeshed in ad hoc technological proposals trying to fulfill and extend that base. Why metaphorical only, why not natural language as the programming language itself? Figure 1. Figure 2. 1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3.
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