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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 27 , Issue 1 (January 1984) table of contents

Pages: 14 - 23

Year of Publication: 1984

ISSN:0001-0782

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Gerald M. Berns

Science Applications, Inc., Arlington, VA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

How easy is it to maintain a program? To a large extent, that depends on how difficult the program is to understand. A technique to measure program difficulty yields encouraging results.

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	1	American National Standard Programming Language Fortran, X3, 9-1978. American National Standards Institute, New York, 1978.
	2	Berns, G. M. Reference Guide to MAT, Maintenance Analysis Tool, Science Applications, Inc., Crystal City, Virginia, 1983.
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	6	VAX-11 Fortran Language Reference Manual, Digital Equipment Corp. (Order No. AA-DO34B-TE), Maynard, Massachusetts, 1980.

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