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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Lines of documentation per LOC
Date: 26 Oct 1994 18:30:39 -0400
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what possible bizarre thinking leads to the conclusion that COBOL requires
ten times the density of comments as Ada for simple sequential
algorithms ...