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From: GBOOCH@USC-ISIF.ARPA (Grady Booch)
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Subject: the size of an ada unit
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 12:40:22 EST
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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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