Re: studies of source code line purposes?

2011-10-07 Thread Rebecca Yates
-Discuss-List Subject: Re: studies of source code line purposes? along the lines of a thought i've had of late why is there so much *code*!?, i wonder if anybody has tired to study programs and categorize the source code into purposes, so we could get a feel for I would have thought

Re: studies of source code line purposes?

2011-10-06 Thread John Daughtry
With respect to the UI portion... Here is a paper by Myers and Rosson from 1992: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=142789 On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Raoul Duke rao...@gmail.com wrote: hi, along the lines of a thought i've had of late why is there so much *code*!?, i wonder if anybody

Re: studies of source code line purposes?

2011-10-06 Thread Derek M Jones
Raoul, along the lines of a thought i've had of late why is there so much *code*!?, i wonder if anybody has tired to study programs and categorize the source code into purposes, so we could get a feel for This is a very fundamental question. Jorma Sajaniemi came up with one of the few ideas