From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-04 17:45:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Nethack! (was): AdaGames Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 05:36:34 +0400 (MSD) Organization: h w c employees, b f Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1017971104 85374 137.194.161.2 (5 Apr 2002 01:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 01:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22125 Date: 2002-04-05T05:36:34+04:00 Wes Groleau wrote: >Take a well-written >module of a reasonable size in any language, and there >are usually ways to greatly change the metric without >changing behavior. This is an interesting idea indeed - there should be automated tools for that. I mean the tools specially designed for manipulation of those metrics, which are in common use. Naturally, a measurment is the first step of a science/technology, and the next step is a targetted manipulation. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia