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| From: Paul Oldfield<[email protected]>
| 
| (responding to Scott P)
| 
| >> (Paul)
| >| Yet the key improvement is in getting better people faster, as
| >| the quality of code depends on the quality of people, whether the 
| >| quality is achieved by peer review at pairing or by peer review
| >| at inspection.
| 
| > (Scott P)
| > This is, actually, a very interesting speculation.  I'm sure there
| > must be studies on the range of defect-creation rates, but I
| > don't recall seeing them. It would be interesting to know whether
| > people who are especially productive (a well-documented
| > phenomenon) are also less likely to create defects...
| 
| Hmm... maybe I miscommunicated.
| 
| I was referring to the speed at which people became better
| developers, rather than the speed at which they produced
| code.  Perhaps there should have been a comma?
| "getting better people, faster" ?  or less ambiguously, 
| "getting better people, sooner".  Oh, the joys of language.
| Did you know people had been writing English for several
| hundred years, before punctuation became common?
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I think I did understand you. You suggested that the key to better
code is "better people", making me curious whether there's research
studying whether "better" in the sense of more-productive is correlated
with "better" in the sense of producing fewer defects.

scott
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