Metrics for Ada packages: an initial study
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 29 (7) , 616-623
- https://doi.org/10.1145/6138.6144
Abstract
Many novel features of Ada present programmers with a formidable learning task. The study of four first-time Ada programmers suggests that a background in the software engineering practices supported by Ada is necessary to learn to use the features of the language.Keywords
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