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cs.SE2007
Parsimony Principles for Software Components and Metalanguages
Todd L. Veldhuizen
Software is a communication system. The usual topic of communication is program behavior, as encoded by programs. Domain-specific libraries are codebooks, domain-specific languages…
cs.SE2005★ 21 cited
Software Libraries and Their Reuse: Entropy, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Zipf's Law
Todd L. Veldhuizen
We analyze software reuse from the perspective of information theory and Kolmogorov complexity, assessing our ability to ``compress'' programs by expressing them in terms of softwa…