Re: Source code of large programs wanted

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Ludovic Brenta writes:
> Florian Weimer writes:
>> * Ludovic Brenta:
>>
>>> And I am happy to report that Ada is doing rather well in Sarge,
>>> as the count went from 0.5 million to 2.5 million lines of source
>>> text (I hate to call it "code"), and that Ada is now the 9th most
>>> used language in Debian (*up* two places since Woody).
>>
>> Debian unstable/experimental contains four additional copies of
>> GNAT (with 400 kSLOC each), which accounts for 1.6 million lines of
>> code. 8-/
>
> The experimental packages won't go into Sarge, by definition.  And,
> GCC also contains lots of C, C++, Java and Fortran.  So this is
> unlikely to change the ranking.

Not to mention that I consider this cheating :) it's easy to package N
versions of the same thing to swell the SLOC count, but there is
little pride to be gained from that.  For example, I could have kept
libgtkada1 and gvd but decided not to, now there's libgtkada2 and
gnat-gps instead.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.