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@Article{Elshoff:1978:SSC,
  author =       "James L. Elshoff",
  title =        "A study of the structural composition of {PL/I}
                 programs",
  journal =      j-SIGPLAN,
  volume =       "13",
  number =       "6",
  pages =        "29--37",
  month =        jun,
  year =         "1978",
  CODEN =        "SINODQ",
  DOI =          "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/987515.987518",
  ISSN =         "0362-1340",
  bibdate =      "Wed Jun 18 16:08:52 MDT 2008",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/",
  abstract =     "Some research on a theory of the structural
                 composition of an algorithm has recently been reported.
                 The theory embodies models of operator and operand
                 distributions that have been proposed by Bayer, Zipf,
                 and Zweben. This paper reports a study in which the
                 three models of operator distributions are compared
                 with the measured distributions found in 34 PL/I
                 programs. Two of three models, one by Zipf and one by
                 Zweben, are shown to correlate highly with the measured
                 distributions. Two variations of the Zipf model are
                 then formulated and tested with good results. Also, the
                 relationship between the method of counting operators
                 and the models is investigated.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  classification = "C4240 (Programming and algorithm theory); C6140D
                 (High level languages)",
  corpsource =   "Computer Sci. Dept., General Motors Res. Labs.,
                 Warren, MI, USA",
  keywords =     "counting operators; operator distributions; PL/1; PL/1
                 programs; programming theory; structural composition",
  treatment =    "T Theoretical or Mathematical",
}

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