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Re: parsability and human factors

From "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: parsability and human factors
Date 2015-02-07 12:45 +0000
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Message-ID <15-02-013@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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Glen,

> I went to a talk, not so long ago, by someone actually studying people
> using computer languages. It seems that many people who write papers
> about how easy or hard they are to use don't actually do any tests
> with real people.

Yes, plenty of arm waving and personal opinions abound.

One experiment suggests that developers are good at doing
what they do most:
http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu06.html
[Write buggy code? -John]

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Re: Choosing a parser for Mathematica input fateman@gmail.com - 2015-02-05 08:08 -0800
  parsability (was: Choosing a parser for Mathematica input) glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-02-06 00:05 +0000
    Re: parsability and human factors "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2015-02-07 12:45 +0000
      Re: parsability and human factors glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-02-08 10:32 +0000
        Re: parsability and human factors "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2015-02-10 12:44 +0000
    Re: parsability "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2015-02-09 00:48 +1100
      Re: parsability Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2015-02-08 20:49 +0100
        Re: parsability news@iecc.com (News Subsystem) - 2015-02-09 14:37 +1100
  Re: Choosing a parser for Mathematica input Robert Jacobson <rljacobson@gmail.com> - 2015-02-06 19:04 -0800

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