The origin of translation has stimulated much discussion since the basic processes involved were deciphered during the 1960s and 1970s. One strand of thought suggested that the process originated from RNA replication in the RNA world (Weiner & Maizels, 1987, 1994). In this paper I seek to extend thi
Analyzing the co-evolution of comments and source code
✍ Scribed by Beat Fluri; Michael Würsch; Emanuel Giger; Harald C. Gall
- Book ID
- 106536964
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 592 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0963-9314
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