Derek M. Jones

By data availability, I meant results from previous runs made by yourself or others. I guess quadratic is the obvious candidate for performance, when a simple implementation is used. At...

I now have an internet facing Linux machine: https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=22b5cb911a so I ought to start doing pull requests (will add support for euro and cent first).

Thanks for the detailed reply. Developers probably do have some idea about how long a task will take, but dislike giving numbers. The extent to which Parkinson's law has an...

Integrating sqlfluff into semgrep looks more of a rewrite than a PR. I will investigate further. The semgrep is fast pitch is a hangover from an effort they made, some...

The support for many (all?) of the semgrep add-on languages are written in C/OCaml, e.g., [sqlite](https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep-sqlite/tree/259a1c78b60d11cee70ab66a615a5499c03c735c). semgrep is OCaml based, with a python interface. How easy would it be to...

Do clones have distinct functionality? Clone detection works on sequences of tokens, not functionality. There is no requirement that the sequence of tokens be capable of being extracted and placed...

I analyse the data from the readability paper you cite. The authors did not specify what readability was, they simply took what the student believed it to be (as indicated...

The definition "a human judgment of how easy a text is to understand" is useless. Everybody has to give the same answer for the same code, or at least vary...

I know of no evidence that cloning is bad (for some definition of bad). Show me the data and I will be happy to discuss it. I am just discussing...

The original program (`main` function) contains 16 paths and 16 tests are required to cover each path. If we assume that functions `a` to `h` each contain one path, then...