✦ LIBER ✦
On the relative comprehensibility of various control structures by novice Fortran programmers
✍ Scribed by C.H. Smith; H.E. Dunsmore
- Book ID
- 104139807
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Weight
- 316 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7373
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✦ Synopsis
Two similar experiments were conducted. In the first, subjects found Fortran programs written with IF-THEN constructs a little easier to comprehend than comparable programs using GOTOs. In the second experiment, programs written with GOTOs were found to be slightly easier to understand than similar programs with the GOTOs replaced by IF-THEN and WHILE-DO control structures.