Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.compilers > #1515

Re: parsability and human factors

Path csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.lightlink.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end
From "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: parsability and human factors
Date Sat, 07 Feb 2015 12:45:16 +0000
Organization virginmedia.com
Lines 14
Sender news@iecc.com
Approved comp.compilers@iecc.com
Message-ID <15-02-013@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References <10-11-017@comp.compilers> <15-02-009@comp.compilers> <15-02-011@comp.compilers>
NNTP-Posting-Host news.iecc.com
Mime-Version 1.0
Content-Type text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding 8bit
X-Trace miucha.iecc.com 1423385340 66040 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (8 Feb 2015 08:49:00 GMT)
X-Complaints-To abuse@iecc.com
NNTP-Posting-Date Sun, 8 Feb 2015 08:49:00 +0000 (UTC)
Keywords design
Posted-Date 08 Feb 2015 03:49:00 EST
X-submission-address compilers@iecc.com
X-moderator-address compilers-request@iecc.com
X-FAQ-and-archives http://compilers.iecc.com
Xref csiph.com comp.compilers:1515

Show key headers only | View raw

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]

Back to comp.compilers | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web