Are scripting languages really different?

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-24

  Roy, Chanchal K ^a   Cordy, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

code clones; empirical study; Python; scripting languages

Indexed keywords

CODE CLONE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

CLONING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954743167     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1808901.1808904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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