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Taming the Tiger

Software Engineering and Software Economics

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Leon S. Levy

    1. AT&T Bell Laboratories, Warren, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Books on Professional Computing (SB COMPUTING)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 1-18

  3. Unifying Themes

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 19-36

  4. Metaprogramming

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 37-63

  5. The Cartesian Programmer and the Hacker

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 64-83

  6. Software Engineering

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 84-103

  7. AWK — A Prototyping Language

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 104-134

  8. Software Economics

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 135-166

  9. The Model

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 167-198

  10. Transfer Pricing

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 199-219

  11. Summing Up

    • Leon S. Levy
    Pages 220-226

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 227-248
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About this book

A small program is presented to motivate the concerns for programmer productivity and program quality that are the central issues of this set of essays. The example is one which demonstrates the performance aspect of programming. In order to achieve program quality, where a program is understood and known to be correct, we need a primary program description. This primary program description not only describes the program but is also used to generate the program. The method of applying primary program descriptions to produce programs is called metaprogramming and is described in Chapter 3. In the later chapters, we show how the method can be analyzed from an economic point of view to address the issues of productivity as well. 1 Introduction In thinking about programming over the last decade, I have concluded that very little is known about the process of programming or the engineering of software [1]. The consequence of having very little established truth to use as a basis for thinking about programming is that almost every conclusion must be reasoned out from first principles. Also, you cannot rely solely on textbooks but must use experimentation and direct observation to gain some experience with which to proceed.

Authors and Affiliations

  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, Warren, USA

    Leon S. Levy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Taming the Tiger

  • Book Subtitle: Software Engineering and Software Economics

  • Authors: Leon S. Levy

  • Series Title: Springer Books on Professional Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4718-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96468-3Published: 16 December 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4718-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0177-7718

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 248

  • Topics: Software Engineering, IT in Business

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