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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 51 , Issue 10 (October 2008) table of contents

SECTION: Practice table of contents

Pages: 36-41

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

George V. Neville-Neil

Queue Editorial Board

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Is it getting any easier to understand other people's code?

REFERENCES

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	1	CScope Man Page; http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_man_page.html.
	2	Doxygen Web Site; http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/.
	3	GNU GLOBAL Source Code Tag System. Tama Communications Corp., Apr. 21, 2008.
	4	gprof; http://www.gnu.org/manual/gprof-2.9.l/gprof.html.
	5	Graphviz Web Site; http://www.graphviz.org/.
	6	How To Use DTrace. Sun Microsystems, 2005. Available on the Web at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/dtracehowto.jsp.
	7	HPC System Call Usage Trends. Terry Jones, Andrew Tauferner, Todd Inglett Linux Clusters Institute 2007.
	8	ktrace: standard tool on open source OSes.
	9	George V. Neville-Neil, Code Spelunking: Exploring Cavernous Code Bases, Queue, v.1 n.6, September 2003 [doi>10.1145/945131.945136]
	10	Sun Microsystems. Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide 2005; http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223
	11	Truss is available on Solaris.
	12	W. Richard Stevens , Gary R. Wright, TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 2): the implementation, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1995