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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b315b117e4c5bae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Source code of large programs wanted References: From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:15:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87sm3lhd7a.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JCXToVE+4qtf03mq5wec9TgIq1k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Feb 2005 22:14:47 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.242.242 X-Trace: 1109279687 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 44092 83.134.242.242:34434 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8485 Date: 2005-02-24T22:14:47+01:00 List-Id: 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.