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Readability is important because programmers spend the majority of their time reading, trying to understand and modifying existing source code, rather than writing new source code. Unreadable code often leads to bugs, inefficiencies, and duplicated code. A study found that a few simple readability transformations made code shorter and drastically reduced the time to understand it. High-level languages made the process of developing a program simpler and more understandable, and less bound to the underlying hardware.
C was developed between 1969 and 1973 as a system programming language for the Unix operating system and remains popular. Lisp, implemented in 1958, was the first dynamically typed functional programming language. The first step in most formal software development processes is requirements analysis, followed by testing to determine value modeling, implementation, and failure elimination . There exist a lot of differing approaches for each of those tasks.
One approach popular for requirements analysis is Use Case analysis. Many programmers use forms of Agile software development where the various stages of formal software development are more integrated together into short cycles that take a few weeks rather than years. There are many approaches to the Software development process. The academic field and the engineering …