Concepts Of Programming Languages
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Author: Sebesta, Robert W.
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Importance of readability to writability:
Both readability and writability greatly affects reliability of a program.
- A language which uses non-natural keyword or statements to write
algorithms is more likely to be error prone. - These unnatural approaches may not be correct in all situations. The easier a program is to write, it is more likely to be correct.
- Readability affects writability in both development and maintenance phases of the software cycle.
Currently in industry, about 10% work is about coding and rest 90% of the work is about maintaining the already existing codes...
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