Re: Assy/Ada SLOC ratio;What's an Ada SLOC?

[visicom!amstel!rlk@nosc.mil (Bob Kitzberger)]

smccoy@dw3g.ess.harris.com (Scott McCoy) writes:

>In the past, I've used 'every non-blank, non-comment line is
>a LOC'.  Note that this method is highly depend upon programming
>and formating style.  I know that.  But it's a simple way to
>count, and if you're consistent, then the data can be meaningful.

I agree that for most seat-of-the-pants uses this LOC definition is
sufficient.  IMHO, algorthmic complexity far overshadows SLOC in terms
of important metrics, which McCabe et. al try to address.  However
McCabe's complexity measures, if I remember correctly, don't take into
account the complexity of the problem domain, so flight control
software that uises the same depth of loops, nesting of IF statements,
etc. as an accounting program will be deemed equal in complexity.

For entertainment, here's a simple awk script to count non-blank, 
non-comment lines.  Don't make million-dollar decisions based on it ;-)

	.Bob.


#!/bin/nawk  -f

BEGIN		{ cmnt = 0; sloc = 0; blnk = 0; }

/^[ \t]*--/	{ cmnt++; next; }
/^[ \t]*$/	{ blnk++; next; }
/^*$/		{ sloc++; next; }

END		{ 
		  printf("Comment lines: %5d\n", cmnt);
		  printf("Blank lines:   %5d\n", blnk);
		  printf("SLOC       :   %5d\n", sloc);
		  printf("-----------------------\n");
		  printf("Total lines:   %5d\n", cmnt+sloc+blnk);
		}
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