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From: Roedy Green on 28 Nov 2009 01:18 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:42:19 -0800 (PST), Ohad Barzilay <ohadbr(a)gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >We are conducting an online web survey as part of a research, held in >Tel Aviv University, that investigates the use of examples in software >development. By 'using examples' we mean any use of an already >existing code in the development process. That does not make sense. Could you please elaborate. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
From: Arved Sandstrom on 28 Nov 2009 09:19
Roedy Green wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:42:19 -0800 (PST), Ohad Barzilay > <ohadbr(a)gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said > : > >> We are conducting an online web survey as part of a research, held in >> Tel Aviv University, that investigates the use of examples in software >> development. By 'using examples' we mean any use of an already >> existing code in the development process. > > That does not make sense. Could you please elaborate. It made sense to me, and that's what their survey is all about. All they are talking about is using already existing code at the source level, which might be accomplished by copy & paste or by retyping lines from a book or a web page or a newsgroup post or someone else's code. In other words, using examples (even if they are your own) is something that each and every one of us does all the time. AHS |