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by eholk 14y ago
Some of the initial analysis Mike has done shows that programmers spend the majority of their time looking at identifiers. I think this supports your point.
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by eholk 14y ago
For an experiment like this it's important to have small, self contained code fragments. It wouldn't be fair to expect someone to decipher the whole Linux kernel source in a short amount of time, for example. Given a sufficiently small chun
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by eholk 14y ago
I forgot to add, I would also be interested in seeing this for photographs and paintings!
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by eholk 14y ago
I read somewhere once that we tend to think of our mind in terms of whatever the current most complex technology is. At one point we thought of the brain as a fantastically complicated plumbing system, and later as a telephone switchboard.
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by eholk 14y ago
It looked like a commercial eye tracker to me, so we wouldn't be able to open source it. However, a quick Google search revealed some things that might be promising.
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by eholk 14y ago
This is actually one of the things that's driving Mike's research. When the latest programming paradigm comes out, usually people argue it's better based on the code being shorter or prettier. Judging programming styles based on beauty is i
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by eholk 14y ago
It's interesting that you mention Singularity, as it turns out that Singularity has been a major influence on Rust. For example, the current communication is very similar to the channel contracts used in Singularity.
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by eholk 14y ago
I heard that Rust was meant to capture the spirit of the language. It was meant not to have a lot of knew ideas (although, as it turns out, language design always leads to new ideas). We have a sort of informal rule to not include research