From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-04 08:09:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CAC7AC6.A6DBDC32@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0203290613.73b55af4@posting.google.com> <6g4gaugv9a85i56kvgcgmu4h2jkjprutec@4ax.com> <4519e058.0204010704.ed2cd06@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204021030.14127b06@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204030750.78a30287@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:09:42 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1017936597 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:09:57 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:09:57 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22098 Date: 2002-04-04T11:09:42-05:00 List-Id: > I once ran a comparison between raw SLOC, semicolons and Halstead bits on a > large body of Ada code. The correlation between them was so close as to make > the method of counting pretty much irrelavent. The secret is to pick your This is true as long as the programmers were not thinking that there would be any reward or punishment for a higher or lower count. Take a well-written module of a reasonable size in any language, and there are usually ways to greatly change the metric without changing behavior. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau