language design has focussed on efficiency and expressiveness, with minimal attention to the ease with which a programmer can translate task requirements into statements in the language, a characteristic we call "facility."

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Bell et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

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Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context:

1Problem-Centered Design for Expressiveness and Facility in a Graphical Programming System1991 · 34 citations
2The knowledge level1982 · 2,501 citations
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