Re: Nethack! (was): AdaGames

[Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>]

On 2 Apr 2002 10:30:14 -0800, dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
wrote:

>Interesting. I usually use "grep -c ";"" for SLOC counting. "wc -l"
>just counts newlines, which adds loads of whitespace and comment lines
>to the count.

<sigh> I somewhat suspected this was going to end in a discussion
about the line-counting method used... Using yours, no doubt more
accurate, they're still about 85K.

>But for my typical Ada
>program, the "wc" method would more than double the count (I'm usually
>at about %50 comments, and that doesn't even count the blank lines.)

Well, your original argument was that porting NetHack to Ada was easy,
and even if the sources are 85K SLOCs it is still a very large project
for just one programmer to undertake as a hobby. I think you're
severily underestimating NetHack's size and complexity.

                                                               /Lektu