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Analysis of longevity of code across many popular projects

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Re: Analysis of longevity of code across many popular projects

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Results for WordPress https://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2016/12/06/half-life-wordpress-co...

It's interesting that it seems better engineered projects tend to retain more initial lines of code. Almost no first version code exists in WordPress and that project's codebase truly is hodge bodge, where as Git is considered a better piece of emgineering. In fact, Linus has been asked specifically about the good design of his programs and how he achieves it.

Re: Analysis of longevity of code across many popular projects

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a research article? What is the difference between this article and one printed in PDF with more complex words and uglier images? My question sparked for your request of a RESEARCH article and not a "normal" blog post. I would like to know why you want a "research" article, that I assumed being an academic article, instead of a blog post.

What I interested in was not the "research article" part but the comparison case. This article comes up with a tool measuring the half-life of the code and demonstrates it on some project. What I was requested as an addition is the discussion of correlation of this metric with other metrics. Being said that, a "paper" makes a difference compared to a "blog post" at some cases. Sometimes, in order to convince your dir…

Nono, I was not offended, sorry if I gave such impression.

What left me wonder is the assumption that an academic paper is more serious than a blog post; I frequent the academic and that is just not true, especially in our field.

Then, of course, upper management may not share this point of view.

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