Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

I once ran a comparison between raw SLOC, semicolons and Halstead bits on a
large body of Ada code. The correlation between them was so close as to make
the method of counting pretty much irrelavent. The secret is to pick your
metric and then be *consistent* in applying it and use it only in monitoring
internal things within a project. ("SLOCs modified in this release", for
example)

You can't really use any of them to compare what goes on in one
language/project with another anyway. The best it tells you is some gross
level of difference between the size of one thing and another. You might be
able to say "This project has a whole lot more code to look at than that
project" and that's about the extent of its relevance.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> Generally, I think SLOC is a stupid metric, so tons of effort should
> *not* be spent in calculating it or figuring out the perfect way to
> calculate it. For that reason, I wouldn't really blink at someone who
> uses your method, or most any other method. But methods that count
> both comments *and* blank lines are just a bit *too* slack. :-)
>