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Delocalized Plans and Program Comprehension
Abstract
A maintainer's understanding can go awry when it is based on purely local clues. How can we spell out the intentions behind a piece of code?
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Metadata
- Authors
- Letovsky, S., & Soloway, E.
- Venue
- IEEE Software
- Published
- 1986-05
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 41-49
- ISSN
- 0740-7459 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2052592404
- Cited by
- 245
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 37.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Letovsky, S., & Soloway, E. (1986). Delocalized Plans and Program Comprehension. IEEE Software. https://doi.org/10.1109/ms.1986.233414
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