the size of an ada unit

the size of an ada unit

[Grady Booch]

Some time ago, there was net traffic that weighed the merits of judging
the size of an ada program by counting actual lines of code versus
the number of semicolons. I recently gathered these statistics on
some software I've written, and came up with the following statistics:

number of units: 892
loc:           : 123584
semis          : 60547

this works out to be 2.04 lines of code per semicolon. Has anyone
else analyzed a substantial amount of software? I'm interested in
seeing if this ratio holds across different application domains, or
if it is just a reflection of my personal coding style.

egb
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Re: the size of an ada unit

[Rick Conn]

Hello, Grady,

Re your question on the ratio of LOC/semicolon, I pulled some files from
various contractors and projects from the repository and ran them thru
File Checker.  While this is just a small sample, it is interesting.  Perhaps
when I get around to porting/rewriting File Checker to SIMTEL20, we can run
it against the entire repository.

FILE CHECKER, Version 1.3

File Name                       Statements    Comments  Stmts+Cmts       Lines
==============================  ==========  ==========  ==========  ==========
abstract.src                          4427        6015       10442       17975
spell2.src                            2743        2710        5453       53334
tcpstand.src                           217          88         305         473
constrct.src                           530         412         942        4148
createtb.src                           661         293         954        1546
a970.src                               654         592        1246        3516
[contr13.sources]fcheck.src            153         252         405         594
[contr13.sources]help.src              539         444         983        2260
[contr13.sources]list.ada              161         211         372         498
[contr13.sources]pager.src             741         533        1274        3236

** TOTALS **                         10826       11550       22376       87580


		Rick
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Re: the size of an ada unit

[Rick Conn]

By the way, in my last message, "Statements" is a semicolon count (intelligent
since it knows about semis in parameter lists, etc, and does not count them)
and "Lines" is a new line count.  "Comments" are comment lines (first non-
blank is --).

	Rick
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