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XLR: Extensible Language and Runtime The art of turning ideas into code Concept Programming Metrics Prev: The Concept Programming Process Up Next: syntactic noise Concept programming suggests a few metrics to identify if the process has been applied correctly and if the mapping from the problem space to the code space is satisfactory: The syntactic noise measures the quality of the visible representation of the code (most often a sequence of characters known as the "source code"). The semantic noise measures the quality of the non-visible aspects of the code, notably how it relates to the underlying concepts it represents. The bandwidth measures how much of the problem space is covered by a particular representation. The signal/noise ratio measures how much of the code is really useful to solving an actual problem from the problem space (as opposed to some form of artificial complexity). The analogy to signal and music is deliberate. Much like in engineering, reducing noise is a worthy objective, but eliminating it entirely is in general impossible. Much like in music, what is noise to one person can be music to another. Prev: The Concept Programming Process Up Next: syntactic noise Copyright 2008 Christophe de Dinechin (Blog) E-mail: XL Mailing List (polluted by spam, unfortunately)