A Review of Army High Level Programming Languages and Documentation for ADP Software.

Abstract

This paper reviews state of the art for high level programming languages and traces their development from first generation computers to the present day. A review and comparison of industry and Army standards for program documentation is made and differences discussed. Based upon field interviews, findings concerning command unique documentation are presented. Conclusions indicate that more powerful and cost effectve high level languages are available for use and that documentation for command unique software is not adequate. Recommendations are made for securing a system language, establishing a central review and approval authority for software documentation, and for various follow up studies. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 26, 1979
Accession Number
ADA073879

Entities

People

  • James G. Mcknight

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • High Level Languages
  • Information Systems
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Local Area Networks
  • Machine Languages
  • Machines
  • Maintenance
  • Management Information Systems
  • Numbers
  • Programming Languages
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Software Engineering.