A multi-paradigm complexity metric (MCM)
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Abstract
Huge amount of researches and software metrics have been proposed for procedural and object-oriented languages. However, there are only few metrics available in the literature related with multi-paradigm programming languages. In this paper, we propose a metric to evaluate the code written in multi-paradigm language. Our proposed metric can be used for most of the programming paradigms, including both procedural and object-oriented languages.
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ISBN:9783642219337
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
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