LTP survey
Hi!
I've been asked if we can help to fill in data for the LTP Survey from Jonatas send to the mailing list earlier.
So if you haven't done so yet and can spare 10 minutes of your time, please go to:
And fill it in.
Many thanks on behalf of Jonatas!
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Cyril Hrubis [email protected]
Hello,
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Hi!
I've been asked if we can help to fill in data for the LTP Survey from Jonatas send to the mailing list earlier.
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So if you haven't done so yet and can spare 10 minutes of your time, please go to:
And fill it in.
Many thanks on behalf of Jonatas!
I already filled it in once and I don't think my answers will change much (despite any corrects to the survey).
I will add that I think MI is bullshit, it is not a metric because it doesn't follow the triangle inequality and it is trying to compress an N-dimensional problem (where N is very large) into a single scalar value which is dangerous if people take it seriously. The fact it has decreased as the LTP's code has improved shows Wittgenstein's ruler at work. At best it is a heuristic, but it is probably better to use/view its component metrics directly.
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Thank you,
Richard.
Hi,
thanks for your email. I have filled out the survey as good as possible.
I also agree that the MI metric might contain inaccuracy.
As an example, you might conclude that a high percentage of comments(COM) eases maintainability and readability of code but comments can contain exactly no semantic information at all but just increase the visual attraction. In this case comments are counter productive, introducing overhead that makes the code more difficult to maintain. In the function high percentages of COM might be weakened already but it still shows that the result is probably not very accurate.
It might be possible to use syntactic analysis when you presume that all developers use given syntactic expressions to produce an optimally readable and functional code. But then you also have to presume that they have an infinite amount of time to solve the specific problem and so on...
Regards,
Christian
Am 10.01.19 um 11:25 schrieb Richard Palethorpe:
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Hello,
Quoted 4 lines · Cyril Hrubis
Hi!
I've been asked if we can help to fill in data for the LTP Survey from Jonatas send to the mailing list earlier.Quoted 8 lines
So if you haven't done so yet and can spare 10 minutes of your time, please go to:
And fill it in.
Many thanks on behalf of Jonatas!
I already filled it in once and I don't think my answers will change much (despite any corrects to the survey).
I will add that I think MI is bullshit, it is not a metric because it doesn't follow the triangle inequality and it is trying to compress an N-dimensional problem (where N is very large) into a single scalar value which is dangerous if people take it seriously. The fact it has decreased as the LTP's code has improved shows Wittgenstein's ruler at work. At best it is a heuristic, but it is probably better to use/view its component metrics directly.
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Thank you,
Richard.
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