JOURNAL ARTICLE
APL compared with other languages according to Halstead's theory
Year: 1986 Journal: ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol: 21 (1)Pages: 31-39 Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Abstract
Some ten years ago M. H. Halstead and his collaborators at Purdue University set up a theory allowing to measure the characteristics of software and their relations. One of these characteristics is the language level allowing to compare the respective effects of these languages on the productivity of programming. This language level has been evaluated for APL by the author (APL81) and by R. A. Mauri and A. H. Williams (APL82), the latter taking into account the distinction in APL between primitive functions and operators. The results are compared and some reflections are given.
Keywords:
Computer science Programming language Set (abstract data type) Measure (data warehouse) Linguistics Philosophy
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Software Engineering Research
Physical Sciences → Computer Science → Information Systems
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Physical Sciences → Computer Science → Software
Logic, programming, and type systems
Physical Sciences → Computer Science → Artificial Intelligence
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