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Re:How do we read code? by columbo on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:22PM (#4941126)
This is very interesting. Have they considered using multiple languages (functional, oo) as well as including 'garbage' languages (brainfuck) to track differences? I'd also be curious to see how it compares to a standard word problem (two trains leaving chicago etc).
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Re:How do we read code? by synesthesiam on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @12:43PM (#4943704)
Here's an interesting paper where they compare their language (Quorum), Perl, and a language with random ASCII tokens: http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/twiki/pub/Events/PLATEAU/Program/p...

(Spoiler alert: Perl doesn't fair much better than the random language!)

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