A style analysis of C programs

  • Authors:
  • R E. Berry;B A.E. Meekings

  • Affiliations:
  • Lancaster Univ., Lancaster, UK;AGS Computers, Inc., Mountainside, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Special section on computer architecture
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

A large quantity of well-respected software is tested against a series of metrics designed to measure program lucidity, with intriguing results. Although slanted toward software written in the C language, the measures are adaptable for analyzing most high-level languages.