A Comparison of Maintainability Metrics of Two A+ Interpreters
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Reports on reimplementing or porting legacy code to modern platforms are numerous in the literature. However, they focus on technical problems, functional equivalence, and performance. In the current paper, our goal is to pull maintainability into focus as well and we argue that it is (at least) of equal importance. We conducted source code analysis on two implementations of the runtime environment of the A+ language and computed maintainability-related metrics for both systems. In this paper, we present the results of their comparison.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013