Defining and measuring the productivity of programming languages

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 441-448

  Kennedy, Ken ^a   Koelbel, Charles ^a   Schreiber, Robert ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance metrics; Productivity measurement; Programming language effectiveness; Programming support systems

Indexed keywords

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PERFORMANCE METRICS; PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PROGRAMMING INTERFACES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE EFFECTIVENESS; PROGRAMMING SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 9744233015     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342004048537     Document Type: Article

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