Re: studies of naming?

2012-03-26 Thread Raoul Duke
hi, On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Brad Myers b...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: These results are not collected in one place, however, and are distributed throughout our papers. References for the papers that report on all of these are here: Thanks for the summary and pointers. -- The Open

Re: studies of naming?

2012-03-26 Thread Derek M Jones
Raoul, Wondering if anybody knows of research that tries to get the word out that naming is important. Or proves that naming isn't important! Maybe There is of course: www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/sent792.pdf Operand names influence operator precedence decisions

Re: studies of naming?

2012-03-26 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On 27/03/2012, at 11:20 AM, Brad Myers wrote: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/apiusability.html Looking at that page, I picked one paper that addressed an issue I feel strongly about. In my own API design I have followed one principle rigorously: an object should NEVER become accessible until