Re: Source code of large programs wanted

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

Here is a site that I just stumbled upon the other day:

http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/debian-counting/

This guy must be nuts, he set out to measure the SLOC count of the
last four stable releases of *Debian*, perhaps the largest single
collection of programs in the world.  The total for Sarge is rougly
218 million lines!

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).

If anyone feels like packaging even more Ada software for Debian,
*please* do!  There must be a way to beat Fortran and become #8, we
need a mere 256 kSLOC.  Anyone for PolyORB?  That's 115 kSLOC by
itself.  Or Dtraq? 30 kSLOC.  Or Adagio? 32 kSLOC.  These fine
programs, and others, deserve to be spread to the world.

I also noticed that on the Linux counter (http://counter.li.org),
Debian now exceeds 21% of the installed base, now surpassing Red Hat
and Fedora Core combined and becoming the #1 distribution!

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.