Third-generation versus fourth-generation software development
1988; IEEE Computer Society; Volume: 5; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1109/52.17797
ISSN1937-4194
Autores Tópico(s)Software Engineering Research
ResumoA case study examines how fourth-generation languages do well and how they come up short compared to their predecessors. Two fourth-generation tools dBase III and PC/Focus were used, and a solution in Cobol was developed to use as a benchmark for third-generation-language performance. For each solution, development effort, code size, and performance characteristics were examined. It was found that even though the code sizes were smaller with both fourth-generation tools, Cobol was clearly superior in performance. It took longer to develop the solution in Cobol than in dBase III but less time than in PC/Focus. >
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