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Line 1: '''End-user development''' (EUD) is a research topic within the field of [[computer science]] and [[human-computer interaction]], describing activities or techniques that allow people who are not professional developers to create or modify a software artifact. A Early ~~typical~~attempts ~~example~~in ofEnd-user ~~EUD~~development iswere centered in adding simple [[~~Computer~~scripting]] [[programming~~\|programming~~ language]]s to extend and adapt an existing ~~package~~application, such as an [[office suite]]. More recent research tries to bring programming closer to the needs of end users. The [[Programming by example]] (''PbE'') approach reduces the need for the user to learn the abstractions of a classic programming language. The user instead introduces some examples of the desired results and/or operations that should be performed on the data, and the PbE system infers the correct abstractions corresponding to a program that produces this output. There are two basic reasons why EUD has become popular{{Fact\|date=March 2009}}. One is because organizations are facing delays on projects and using EUD can effectively cut the time of completion on a project. The second reason is that software tools are more powerful and easier to use.

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