From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T06:03:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Punctuation as noise

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 05:01:30 +0900
"Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > > I have noticed an odd effect already, though. The
> > > symbol/alpha ratio is fairly low (1-2) for smaller
> > > programs and larger (4-6) for larger programs. I've
> > > tried it on sources ranging from 10 lines to 2000
> > > lines.
> 
> One thing I think I've noticed however is that the s:n code you posted takes
> into account comments as "code".  For heavily commented source, this might
> skew the s:n ratio, no?
> 

Another thing is that it doesn't take into account variance.  For
instance, with this code, "@@@@@@@@@" would be just as noisy as
"#@!^$(*&%", and to me, variance has a _lot_ to do with noise.


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