On 29/03/2012, at 5:49 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
Let's recall the Builder pattern. There are actually two variables.
s/variables/variants/
Sorry.
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Subject: Re: studies of naming?
You introduced a third option. However, it is a deviation of the
implementation behind the interface as opposed to an alternative interface.
Are you suggesting that every API study should consider all of the limitless
alternative
On 29/03/2012, at 3:39 AM, Steven Clarke wrote:
On the factory design pattern, that has been studied also. This will likely
make you even more terrified of using software built by other software
engineers J,
I boggle at calling these people software engineers.
They appear to be, at best,
and ever will exist.
Steven
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From: Richard O'Keefe
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Subject: Re: studies of naming?
On 29/03/2012, at 3:39 AM, Steven Clarke wrote:
We don’t have the luxury
John,
Given that many programmers have been trained to believe that opportunism
is bad, it is also likely that observation of programming evokes
Are many programmers taught anything and if they are does it go in
one ear and out the other?
I think most developers pick up a rag bag of habits
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Subject: Re: studies of naming?
You introduced a third
On 29/03/2012, at 4:00 PM, Brad Myers wrote:
Three points Richard is missing are (1) the issue of what to do with the
values are you are assembling them. One of the arguments for the
create-set-call style that Richard is missing is that people don't like to
have to invent a bunch of local
Hello,
A lot of discussion related to naming can be found in the
following documents.
http://www.naturalprogramming.com/to_read/doctoral_thesis_of_kari_laitinen.pdf
http://www.naturalprogramming.com/to_read/estimating_understandability_etc.pdf
I think the discussion is still valid although
hi,
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Brad Myers b...@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
These results are not collected in one place, however, and are distributed
throughout our papers. References for the papers that report on all of these
are here:
Thanks for the summary and pointers.
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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
On 27/03/2012, at 11:20 AM, Brad Myers wrote:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/apiusability.html
Looking at that page, I picked one paper that addressed an issue
I feel strongly about. In my own API design I have followed one
principle rigorously: an object should NEVER become accessible
until
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