Economic Impacts of Programming Languages

This following has been submitted by Jerry Patterson, Junaid Babar and Hsien-Chieh Cheng towards Homework(0) for Com S 541 - Programming Languages I. We'll try and give you an idea of what factors play a significant role towards determining the cost of Software Development and Maintenance.

The Software Life Cycle
What part of the Life Cycle really makes a big difference to the cost of the software.

Maintenance of the software
The Testing and Debugging process

Drivers of Cost
Important differences between Large and Small projects and how they affect language requirements.
An analysis of the different programming paradigms with respect to the positive impact they have upon "Cost of Software".

Trade-offs in programming languages that we have observed during our work in this area.
Issues (which we feel) that have not be addressed adequately by the present programming paradigms.
Answers to questions from the presentation.

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at hccheng@cs.iastate.edu