Pith Number

pith:D54RRBPW

pith:2024:D54RRBPWLSIMXNVFUVY2LQ4KIX

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Challenges in Comparing Code Maintainability across Different Programming Languages

Christophe Ponsard, Denis Darquennes, Gustavo Ospina

arxiv:2411.15502 v1 · 2024-11-23 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D54RRBPWLSIMXNVFUVY2LQ4KIX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:39:36.021210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f791885f65c90cbb6a5a571a5c38a45e49eecd577cc6db483d540a1b90acb44

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.15502 · arxiv_version: 2411.15502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.15502 · pith_short_12: D54RRBPWLSIM · pith_short_16: D54RRBPWLSIMXNVF · pith_short_8: D54RRBPW

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D54RRBPWLSIMXNVFUVY2LQ4KIX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1f791885f65c90cbb6a5a571a5c38a45e49eecd577cc6db483d540a1b90acb44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a71cea57bb06536238efc76ffea5aa130f5e7a3891768946c120c59164a0e5ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-23T09:41:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4eeb7d1dfc58646575983bd58e195adc2184216ddac064d501e026e7f940393d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.15502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}