A Study on the effects of programming Languages on Software Complexity : Comparison of FORTRAN IV vs. FORTRAN 77 and PASCAL vs. C

프로그래밍 언어가 소프트웨어 복잡도에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 : FORTRAN IV와 FORTRAN 77, PASCAL과 C의 비교

This paper presents the results of experiments which compare the software complexity between programming languages, i.e, FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN 77, PASCAL and C language, respectively. Each experiment is performed to compare the complexity between programs of same problems using Halstead's method based on operator, and McCabe's based on data flow. As the results of 25 test programs experiments, FORTRAN 77 languages shows superiority to FORTRAN IV languages, and C than that of PASCAL languages, in the aspect of the global software complexity.