Title :
An Analysis of Some Commercial PL/I Programs
Author :
Elshoff, James L.
Author_Institution :
Computer Science Department, General Motors Research Laboratories
fDate :
6/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The source code for 120 production PL/I programs from several General Motors´ commercial computing installations has been collected. The programs have been scanned both manually and automatically. Some data from the scanning process are presented and interpreted.
Keywords :
Computer program analysis; program complexity; program readability; program size; programmer discipline; programming language usage; software economics; Computer industry; Computer languages; Computer science; Guidelines; History; Information analysis; Personnel; Production; Programming profession; Terrorism; Computer program analysis; program complexity; program readability; program size; programmer discipline; programming language usage; software economics;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSE.1976.233538
