• DOI:10.1145/117954.117969
Corpus ID: 11233952

An empirical study of the object-oriented paradigm and software reuse

@inproceedings{Lewis1991AnES,
  title={An empirical study of the object-oriented paradigm and software reuse},
  author={J. Lewis and S. Henry and D. Kafura and R. Schulman},
  booktitle={OOPSLA '91},
  year={1991}
}

J. Lewis, S. Henry, +1 author R. Schulman

Published in OOPSLA '91 1991

Computer Science

This paper describes the preliminary results of a controlled experiment designed to evaluate the impact of the object-oriented paradigm on software reuse. The experiment concludes that (1) the object-oriented paradigm substantially improves productivity, although a significant part of this improvement is due to the effect of reuse, (2) reuse without regard to language paradigm improves productivity, (3) language differences are far more important when programmers reuse than when they do not… CONTINUE READING

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