Information content of expressions
Software developers read source code to obtain information. How might the information content of source code be quantified? Both of the following functions assign the same value to x and if that is the...
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What I found most intriguing about Google Code Search (shutdown Nov 2011) was how quickly searches involving regular expressions returned matches. A few days ago Russ Cox, the implementor of Code...
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Parsing R code: Freedom of expression is not always a good idea
With my growing interest in R it was inevitable that I would end up writing a parser for it. The fact that the language is relatively small (the add-on packages do the serious work) hastened the event...
View ArticleInformation content of expressions
Software developers read source code to obtain information. How might the information content of source code be quantified? Both of the following functions assign the same value to x and if that is the...
View ArticleRelative spacing of operands affects perception of operator precedence
What I found most intriguing about Google Code Search (shutdown Nov 2011) was how quickly searches involving regular expressions returned matches. A few days ago Russ Cox, the implementor of Code...
View ArticleParsing R code: Freedom of expression is not always a good idea
With my growing interest in R it was inevitable that I would end up writing a parser for it. The fact that the language is relatively small (the add-on packages do the serious work) hastened the event...
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