Rosalie Steier
Pages 129-130
Adele Goldberg
Pages 131-133
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 134-136
Rosalie Steier
Page 137
Jon Bentley
Pages 138-141
Does Grosch's law, which postulated that the costs of computer systems increase at a rate equivalent to the square root of their power, still hold? The age of mini-, micro-, and supercomputers seems to have complicated the situation …
Phillip Ein-Dor
Pages 142-151
The readability of the ten major computing periodicals is analyzed using the Flesch Reading Ease Index.
Ronald S. Lemos
Pages 152-157
From NELIAC (via ALGOL 60) to Euler and ALGOL W, to Pascal and Modula-2, and ultimately Lilith, Wirth's search for an appropriate formalism for systems programming yields intriguing insights and surprising results.
Niklaus Wirth
Pages 160-164
Both the composition of the selection team and the choice of evaluation criteria should reflect the end-user orientation of DSS software.
Bernard C. Reimann, Allan D. Waren
Pages 166-179
Psychometric scaling methods are applied to programmer productivity assessments of 20 tools to recommend a set of minimal, as well as more comprehensive, tools.
Stephen José Hanson, Richard R. Rosinski
Pages 180-189
Effective development environments for discrete event simulation models should reduce development costs and improve model performance. A model specification language used in a model development environment is defined. This approach …
C Michael Overstreet, Richard E. Nance
Pages 190-201
In this article we study the amortized efficiency of the “move-to-front” and similar rules for dynamically maintaining a linear list. Under the assumption that accessing the ith element from the front of the list takes &thgr;(i) time …
Daniel D. Sleator, Robert E. Tarjan
Pages 202-208
