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Methodological Irregularities in Programming-Language Research.

Substantial industry and government investments in software are at risk due to changes in the underlying programming languages, despite the fact that such changes have no empirically verified benefits. One way to address this problem is to establish rigorous evidence standards like those in medicine...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 50; no. 8; pp. 60 - 64
Main Authors: Stefik, Andreas, Hanenberg, Stefan
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Aug2017
Subjects:
Computer programming
Computer software
Programming languages
Computer systems
Investments
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Summary:Substantial industry and government investments in software are at risk due to changes in the underlying programming languages, despite the fact that such changes have no empirically verified benefits. One way to address this problem is to establish rigorous evidence standards like those in medicine and other sciences.