Re: Assy/Ada SLOC ratio;What's an Ada SLOC?

[Dennis Doubleday <dday%bullwinkle.sware.com@mathcs.emory.edu>]

(Dave Collard x7468) writes:
> IMHO, any method that depends on semicolons for counting
> lines of code is pretty useless.

The tool I wrote back in '87 counts it just about every way imaginable: it
counts ALL semicolons, actual lines (with subtotals of blank, non-blank, and
non-comment lines), and Ada statements (with subtotals of executable and
declarative statements, and a breakdown of statements by statement type).  It
also includes a lot of other code size/complexity measures.  The best way to
do it is to give the user all the well-organized information you can and let
him decide what to make of it.

If you are interested, the tool is called ASAP.  The last time I was able to
check, it was still available via anonymous ftp from ftp.sei.cmu.edu, in the
pub/dd directory.  There is also a document there describing the tool and
giving installation and operation instructions.  It works only on VMS with DEC
Ada.  It could be ported to UNIX with not too much effort; the VMS/DEC Ada
dependencies are enumerated in the accompanying document.

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