• DocumentCode
    747445
  • Title

    An Analysis of Some Commercial PL/I Programs

  • Author

    Elshoff, James L.

  • Author_Institution
    Computer Science Department, General Motors Research Laboratories
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1976
  • fDate
    6/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    113
  • Lastpage
    120
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-5589
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSE.1976.233538
  • Filename
    1702349