Toward a theoretical basis for estimating programming effort

Proceedings of the 1975 Annual Conference, ACM 1975

Volumn , Issue , 1975, Pages 222-224

  Halstead, M H ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY CONSTANTS; SMALL DATA; STATIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84878255204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/800181.810326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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