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aahz at pythoncraft

Nov 6, 2009, 1:15 PM

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Microsoft research on code quality

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx
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exarkun at twistedmatrix

Nov 6, 2009, 1:47 PM

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Re: Microsoft research on code quality [In reply to]

On 09:15 pm, aahz[at]pythoncraft.com wrote:
>http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx

Thanks for passing on the link. It's really encouraging to see people
starting to do empirical research in this area.

Jean-Paul
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bdesth.quelquechose at free

Nov 7, 2009, 9:43 AM

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Re: Microsoft research on code quality [In reply to]

Aahz a écrit :
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx

An interesting reading. Thanks for the link.
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mensanator at aol

Nov 7, 2009, 3:22 PM

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On Nov 6, 3:15 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx
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> [on old computer technologies and programmers] "Fancy tail fins on a
> brand new '59 Cadillac didn't mean throwing out a whole generation of
> mechanics who started with model As." --Andrew Dalke

Microsoft has more to answer for for the fuckups they install
deliberately than for the bugs that get in accidentally.
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mark.leander at topicbranch

Nov 11, 2009, 4:52 AM

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> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx

Thanks for the link! Hope he next takes on verifying that less code
implies less bugs when
other factors are constant, thus proving that Python is better than C
and Java :-).

Mark
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rt8396 at gmail

Nov 11, 2009, 5:11 AM

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On Nov 7, 5:22 pm, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote:
> Microsoft has more to answer for for the fuckups they install
> deliberately than for the bugs that get in accidentally.

Here!, Here! Very well put Mensanator!

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