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Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 26, Issue 11

Pages 197 - 211

https://doi.org/10.1145/118014.117970

Published: 01 November 1991 Publication History

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Towards a metrics suite for object oriented design
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        Object oriented languages

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 26, Issue 11

Nov. 1991

362 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/118014

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OOPSLA '91: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
November 1991
384 pages
ISBN:0201554178
DOI:10.1145/117954
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Andreas Paepcke

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