Assessing software maintainability
How easy is it to maintain a program? To a large extent, that depends on how difficult the program is to understand. A technique to measure program difficulty yields encouraging results.
Gerald M. Berns
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Description of FORMAT, a text-processing program
FORMAT is a production program which facilitates the editing and
printing of “finished” documents directly on the
printer of a relatively small (64k) computer system. It features
good performance, totally free-form input, very flexible formatting
capabilities including up to eight columns per page, automatic
capitalization, aids for index construction, and a minimum of
nontext items. It is written entirely in FORTRAN IV.
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