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Some aids for program documentation

Author(s) -

Scowen R. S.

Publication year - 1977

Publication title -

software: practice and experience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437

H-Index - 70

eISSN - 1097-024X

pISSN - 0038-0644

DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380070612

Subject(s) - documentation , listing (finance) , byte , computer science , identifier , program structure , computer program , programming language , index (typography) , simple (philosophy) , code (set theory) , arithmetic , mathematics , finance , business , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , epistemology

The documentation of computer programs can be considerably eased and standardized using the programs described in this paper. They are basically machine‐ and language‐independent, possess a simple structure, use one serial input and one output stream, and require no backing store. The code size for each program is a few thousand bytes and the time for running them is dominated by that needed for input and output. The programs are: 1 INDEX (gives an index of all identifiers used in a program). 2 POLISH (paginates a program listing so that the global structure is evident). 3 WATER (helps find misprints in computer‐readable reports). 4 UNDOC (creates a live program from its documented form).Also included are examples of the output from these programs.

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