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IWPC
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
In a typical COBOL program, the data division consists of 50% of the lines of code. Automatic type inference can help to understand the large collections of variable declarations ...
TACAS
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. Weakly-typed languages such as Cobol often force programrepresent distinct data abstractions using the same low-level physical type. In this paper, we describe a techniqu...
WCRE
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
We show how hypertext-based program understanding tools eve new levels of abstraction by using inferred type information for cases where the subject software system is written in ...
COMPSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Understanding and maintaining legacy COBOL systems are still a challenging task for both academic research and industry practice. With the development of aspect-oriented software ...
WCRE
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
Types are a good starting point for various software reengineering tasks. Unfortunately, programs requiring reengineering most desperately are written in languages without an adeq...