On a Measure of Program Structure

Abstract

Program structure has been discussed as being an important influence on the ease with which programs can be constructed, verified, understood, and changed. Yet the notion of program structure has remained a vague and imprecisely defined concept. This thesis proposes a definition and a measure for program structure and evaluates the usefulness of the measure as a tool for determining and controlling structure in a program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0784824

Entities

People

  • Robert Noyes Chanon

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Birds
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Information Theory
  • Language
  • Mathematics
  • Operating Systems
  • Probability
  • Programming Languages
  • Scientific Research
  • Structured Programming
  • Trees (Data Structures)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Systems Analysis and Design
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