Abstract
The personal computer of the future will offer its owner an information manipulation system. It will be a totally integrated system being able to manipulate text (prose or programs), graphical objects, sound and other information structures.
An information manipulation system will be an important step towards achieving the goal that we can do all our work on-line — placing in computer store all of our specifications, plans, designs, programs, docu mentation, reports, memos, bibliography and reference notes and doing all of our scratch work, planning, designing, debugging and most of our intercommunication via the consoles.
In this paper we consider specifically text processing systems and how they can support the creative act of writing (a problem solving task) as well as the routine skill of editing a manuscript (ie to make the extension and modification of text a less painful task for a human being). We argue that they should be integrated with programming systems because the cognitive processes underlying programming are quite similar to those which are necessary for writing and we believe that text processing systems can be an important bridge to the learning of programming for the non-expert user.
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Fischer, G. (1980). Cognitive dimensions of information manipulation systems. In: Wossidlo, P.R. (eds) Textverarbeitung und Informatik. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67700-7_2
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