Re: Automated Ada Physical Source Lines Counter

[agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!tedux.hobby.nl!mo.hobby.nl!compi.ho bby.nl!muts@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mutsaers)]

>> On Wed, 15 Sep 1993 20:46:00 GMT, shimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil (timothy
>> shimeall) said:

  ts> This message announces the availabilty of the prototype Automated Ada
  ts> Physical Source Lines Counter.  This tool, described at a presentation
  ts> during the most recent SEI Software Engineering Symposium, allows the
[...]

  ts> This code was developed for US Government purposes (MS Thesis study)
  ts> by US Government personnel, and as such is uncopyrighted. Source code
[...]

  ts> 2120024 Sep 15 13:11 count.tar.Z - compressed tar image of the
  ts> distribution

Is this a joke? 2.1M for counting source code lines? It must have been
written in ada itself. What is wrong with 'wc *.ada', where 

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         4712 May 10 21:53 /bin/wc

of 4K is used?

Who needs number of lines as a metric anyway. Completely useless IMHO
and only used to impress managers who don't know a thing on software
development.
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