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APL Extended Compared With Other Languages According to Halstead's Theory

Published:1998-06 Issue:6 Volume:33 Page:54
ISSN:0362-1340
Container-title:ACM SIGPLAN Notices
language:en
Short-container-title:SIGPLAN Not.

Author:

van Batenburg F. H. D.¹,de Kerf Joseph²

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Theoretical Biologie, Kaiserstraat 63, 2311 GF Leiden, The Netherlands

2. Belgian APL-CAN Users Society, Rooienberg 72, B-2570 Duffel, Belgium

Abstract

In a previous paper, Halstead's theory was applied to first generation APL. Those implementations only support simple arrays (APL/SA). In this paper we extend the application of Halstead's theory to second generation APL; the main difference being that those implementations support arrays of arrays or nested arrays (APL/NA). In both investigations, Halstead's theory had to be adjusted in order to account for the fact that in APL operations may be functions or operators. It is shown that the language level increases from 3.07 for APL/SA to 3.62 for APL/NA This means that language efficiency of APL versus assembler raises from about 12 for APL/SA to nearly 17 for APL/NA.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/284563.609140

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