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>the value of this empirical study The problem is the sample that this study is looking at. As i wrote above, GitHub is simply a big container of code for lite
by flavio81 9y ago
>the value of this empirical study
The problem is the sample that this study is looking at. As i wrote above, GitHub is simply a big container of code for literally everybody, so judging kind of bugs produced by looking at what it's inside the Github repositories is akin to judging how many gramatical errors book authors make by taking a look at all the MS word documents stored in Dropbox.
PS: No worries, and thank you for being friendly. :)
- mannykannot 9y agoThat's a fair point, and I would like to see this sort of study extended to professional code, and more complete type systems. Unfortunately, there are only a few languages and type systems in which this sort of comparison can be made. I am, by temperament, inclined to to believe that typing can improve quality, but so far, empirical studies have not made much of a case for that, and I put empirical evidence above even my own opinions.