Raoul,
Wondering if anybody knows of research that tries to get the word out that naming is important. Or proves that naming isn't important! Maybe
There is of course: www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/sent792.pdf Operand names influence operator precedence decisions http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu07.html There was some naming issues involved in: Classification and grouping into aggregate types http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu08.html
nobody makes still little mistakes the way I do. Anyway, there are things in the programming language world that make me cringe. They look to me like highway train wrecks, if you'll pardon the metaphor, sneaking around looking for a place to happen. Picking two off the top of my head: Scala: "val" vs. "var". One letter difference?!
At the difference was at the end that has less attention paid to it. The second part of: http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu11.html has some experimental evidence that differences at the start of an identifier improve recall performance. Paper and data should be up at the end of the week.
Knockout JS: "viewmodel" instead of, gosh, say, just "model"?! -Mr. Tempest in a Teapot.
and now you get get a phonetic transcription of that: http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2012/03/16/generating-sounds-like-and-accented-words/ -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Source code analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
