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,FREEMAIL_FROM, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,189a28164788ed2e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-05 22:34:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!204.94.211.44!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:36:16 +1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.54.87.89 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1005028451 210.54.87.89 (Tue, 06 Nov 2001 19:34:11 NZDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 19:34:11 NZDT Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15899 Date: 2001-11-06T19:36:16+13:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:eo5F7.19081$wj5.9421656@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com... > >For the 'echo server' shootout, I coded up a solution, and Ada 95 was > >going to be last since 251 lines long. > I coded it using the Claw.Sockets library and, after pretty-printing > to normalize white space, the result is 60 lines. Isn't it true though that, given a long enough SLOC support from the compiler, any Ada program can be written on a single line? Or, at least, use as long lines as are supported by the compiler. That'll show them for sure ... :) So, what was that metric about?