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Are scripting languages really different?

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Chanchal K. Roy,

James R. CordyAuthors Info & Claims

IWSC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Clones

Pages 17 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/1808901.1808904

Published: 08 May 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Ruby and PHP are increasingly important in new software systems as web technology becomes a dominant force. These languages are often spoken of as having different properties, in particular with respect to cloning, and the question arises whether the observations made based on traditional languages also apply to them. In this paper we present a first experiment in measuring the cloning properties of open source software systems written in the Python scripting language using the NiCad clone detector. We compare our results for Python with previous observations of C, C#, and Java, and discover that perhaps scripting languages are not so different after all.

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Are scripting languages really different?
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues

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IWSC '10: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Clones

May 2010

105 pages

ISBN:9781605589800

DOI:10.1145/1808901

Conference Chairs:
Katsuro Inoue
Osaka University, Japan
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Stanislaw Jarzabek
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Rainer Koschke
University of Bremen, Germany
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James R. Cordy
Queen's University, Canada

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