The Analytic Hierarchy Process

By Andrew Colin

Dr. Dobb's Journal February 1999

Level 0             Level 1                        Level 2

Overall decision    Quality of documentation
                      (supplied in printed form,
                      completeness)

                    Cost

                    Quality of development
                      environment (ease of use,
                      configurability, debugging
                      support)

                    C++-specific features          Includes STL
                                                   Supports exception
                                                     handling

Figure 1: A hierarchy for selecting a C++ development environment.

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