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This paper describes an experiment which was undertaken for two purposes: firstly to test the applicability of software science in the realm of student programming, and secondly to obtain quantitative inferences about the programming language PASCAL. The results suggest that software science offers little in the area studied, and possible reasons for this are discussed.
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Johnston, D.B., Lister, A.M. (1980). An experiment in software science. In: Tobias, J.M. (eds) Language Design and Programming Methodology. LDPM 1979. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09745-7_15
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