Impact and comparison of programming constructs on java and c# source code readability

Software readability is a property that manipulates how easily a given piece of code can be read and understood. Since readability can affect maintainability, quality, reusability, understandability etc. Programmers are very concerned about the readability of code. For the good decision of selecting languages, it is necessary to know about the readability of languages. Many software constructs may affect readability of code. In this paper we have selected some constructs that affect readability property and we calculated their readability in C# and java PL. At the end we have also compared results for both languages to make decision easy for programmers to choose best one from both. Short snippets are taken from c# and java and for their readability; five readability indexes are used to get results.