From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 17 Sep 93 08:55:42 GMT From: agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!tedux.hobby.nl!mo.hobby.nl!compi.ho bby.nl!muts@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: Automated Ada Physical Source Lines Counter Message-ID: List-Id: >> 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. -- _______________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.