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Domangue, J. C.; Karbowski, S. A. – 1982
This paper reports the results of two studies of the readability of FORTRAN programs, i.e., the ease with which a programmer can read and analyze programs already written, particularly in the processes of maintenance and debugging. In the first study, low-level characteristics of 202 FORTRAN programs stored on the general-use UNIX systems at Bell…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Programers, Programing
Siegel, Arthur I.; And Others – 1976
A previous report defined a series of 14 novel measures for determining the comprehensibility of English text on the basis of current psycholinguistic and Structure-of-Intellect concepts. That report not only suggested the potential usefulness of the measures but also conjectured about the feasibility of automating the calculation of these…
Descriptors: Adults, Armed Forces, Cognitive Processes, Computer Programs
