Realities of language conversions

IEEE Software

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 111-124

  Terekhov, Andrey A ^a   Verhoef, Chris ^b  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LANGUAGE CONVERSIONS; SILVER BULLET SYNDROME;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0034318148     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.895180     Document Type: Article

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