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Microsoft research on code quality

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http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx
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On 09:15 pm, aahz@... 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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On Nov 6, 3:15 pm, a...@... (Aahz) wrote:
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/nagappan-100609.aspx
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> Aahz (a...@...)           <*>        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.
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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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On Nov 7, 5:22 pm, Mensanator <mensana...@...> 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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