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Microsoft research on code quality

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Aahz

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Nov 6, 2009, 4:15:32 PM11/6/09
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http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx
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brand new '59 Cadillac didn't mean throwing out a whole generation of
mechanics who started with model As." --Andrew Dalke

exa...@twistedmatrix.com

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Nov 6, 2009, 4:47:18 PM11/6/09
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On 09:15 pm, aa...@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

Bruno Desthuilliers

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Nov 7, 2009, 12:43:35 PM11/7/09
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Aahz a �crit :
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx

An interesting reading. Thanks for the link.

Mensanator

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Nov 7, 2009, 6:22:26 PM11/7/09
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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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> Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com)           <*>        http://www.pythoncraft.com/

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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.

Mark Leander

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Nov 11, 2009, 7:52:11 AM11/11/09
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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

r

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Nov 11, 2009, 8:11:28 AM11/11/09
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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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