It is amazing how often one hears the story "knowing one PL makes it easy to get into another PL". Ok, so here is a Fortran procedure (taken from Love's dissertation): What does it do?

A personal announcement for my friends and colleagues in the SE community… 1/n

As long as novelty and originality are applied review criteria (in addition to our conference models), there is no chance software construction ever becomes a mature scientific discipline. #softwarescience

A high h-index implies that you work in a densely populated field with a lot of folks all working on the same thing and citing each other. This is therefore an index of how replaceable you are as a scientist. Discuss.

If one asks openAI's chat "Why is software engineering no a scientific discipline?" one gets a reasonable answer. Asking "Why is software engineering a scientific discipline?", one gets a reasonable answer, too. Like talking to humans: a question implies a lot of the answer.

The reviewer said my findings are meaningless and my research question doesn't interest them, then questioned my integrity as a researcher, so now I write "thank you for your helpful comments"

Is there a list of accepted papers from ICSE / #ICSE2023 out there? It would help to know whether there are papers that should be mentioned in the camera ready copy.

Just accidentally found this beautiful piece of pop music. And just 20k listened to it? How come? The music market is a mystery. open.spotify.com/track/3XdPy9XY…

ChatGPT? Amazing! Cool technology! We need to use it! Solves many problems! Someone else around that has the impression that the software science world repeats its recurring fault to promote a technology before studying it? I mean studying, not playing with it...

Some thought on ChatGPT: ChatGPT, COVID, and the Almighty Underwater Chicken stefanhanenberg.blogspot.com/2023/02

For good reasons research standards such as CONSORT say that a research paper title includes the research method. What went wrong in computer science that authors think that a title must be "damn cool and arouse interest"? Please, PCs, require from authors seriousness.

Failed to upload our ICSE'23 paper to arxiv. Ok, here just an ordinary link: Reichl, Hanenberg, Gruhn: Does the Stream API Benefit from Special Debugging Facilities? A Controlled Experiment on Loops and Streams with Specific Debuggers, ICSE'23 drive.google.com/file/d/1FyIXSM…

"Soziale Medien führen uns dazu, Egos zu füttern, die keinerlei Beachtung verdienen." (Roger Daltrey in einem Zeit-Interview) Netter Satz. Ja ja, ist zynisches, es zu twittern...

Paper on indentation (yes, indentation - this old thing we do but which is hardly studied) Morzeck et al. "Indentation in Source Code: A Randomized Control Trial on the Readability of Control Flow in Java Code with Large Effects", ICSoft'23 drive.google.com/file/d/1UACm8y…

Paper on how simple syntactical changes can have a huge impact. Davulcu, Hanenberg, Werger, Gruhn, "An Empirical Study on the Possible Positive Effect of Imperative Constructs in Declarative Languages: The Case with SQL", ICSoft'23 Preprint: drive.google.com/file/d/1BpA6nS…

Monday Memory Mystery: guess why these assertions hold in Java. (Note that this behavior is *in the language spec*, not an implementation detail of the JVM.)

Ich habe für eine Veranstaltung, deren Tickets 600€ gekostet haben, die seitens des Veranstalters zurückgezogen wurde, von Eventim (DE) €553,34 zurücküberwiesen bekommen. Sehe ich es richtig, dass eine Firma für eine nicht stattgefundenes Ereignis 47€ einbehält? #Eventim

Seriously. Where isn't there a government organization that stops JavaScript from providing these two constructs with different semantics? for(let v in x) ... for(let v of x) ... How many thousand working hours on this planet were wasted because of this?

In case someone collects translations for a "JavaScript to C++ dictionary", here is my contribution: JavaScript: "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)" C++: "Segmentation fault"

Paper on indentation with the focus on the difference between indented and non-indented code (Hanenberg, Morzeck, Gruhn, Empirical Software Engineering, Vol 29, No 5). doi.org/10.1007/s10664…