Programming for Transferability.

Abstract

The document presents the results of an investigation of design and documentation techniques used in computer programming in order to develop recommendations and guidelines for easing the transfer of computer programs written for one computing environment to another. The first part of the study is concerned with a general transferability analysis and techniques to be used independent of any particular programming language. Emphasis is placed on the importance of transferability considerations during design and coding of the problem program. The second section of the study deals with higher level and assembly/macro languages. Specific suggestions for improvement of FORTRAN, JOVIAL, and COBOL program design are included. Programming, assembly languages, Cobol, fortran, jovial programming language, *computer program transferability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0750897

Entities

People

  • Andrew Edwards
  • Guy W. Phillips
  • Joel E. Fleiss
  • Larry Rieder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Compilers
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Machine Languages
  • Programming Languages

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Systems Analysis and Design