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A comment on A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub [pdf].

Re:A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Qua... by ChrisCinelli on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @11:43PM (#8560547)
The sample size is too low. It also seem not to weight enough the age of the project. Older project are usually more prone to defect since the amount of changes of specs that they have to go through.

The results for Typescript are completely wrong. Bitcoin, litecoin, qBittorrent do not have any Typescript code http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/22311/why-does-gi...

Double Face palm!

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Re:A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Qua... by robert-boehnke on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @06:52AM (#8561396)
Not only are they not Typescript, but they the once I checked were mostly C++, which is on the other end of the defect proneness spectrum, according to this study.
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Re:A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Qua... by swuecho on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @01:35AM (#8560746)
similar problem with Perl project in the paper.
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