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| From: | Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@k...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Great Programming Language Shootout Revived |
W li¶cie z sob, 19-06-2004, godz. 13:56 +0200, Nicolas Janin napisa³(a):
> Concerning the idea of zipping the source codes as a measure of code length,
> I find it quite good, as the zipped code is less sensitive to code layout
> than a pure line count and is a decent measure of the information conveyed.
I don't like this as a measure of the amount of code which must be
written and maintained, because copy&paste might actually come shorter
or equal to introducing appropriate named abstractions, while being much
worse design.
I think token count is the most objective measure from measures which
are reasonably easy to take automatically. If not token count, then
line count, and finally character count.
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__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
\__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl
^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/
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