Why software jewels are rare

Computer

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 57-60

  Parnas, David Lorge ^a,b,c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SHIFT REGISTERS; USER INTERFACES;

BUZZWORD OBJECT ORIENTED; PROGRAM CONSTRUCTION TOOLS; REGISTER ALLOCATION ALGORITHM; SOFTWARE JEWELS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030084224     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.485847     Document Type: Article

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