Re: [Caml-list] Great Programming Language Shootout Revived

["Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>]

W liście z sob, 19-06-2004, godz. 13:56 +0200, Nicolas Janin napisał(a):

> Concerning the idea of zipping the source codes as a measure of code length,
> I find it quite good, as the zipped code is less sensitive to code layout
> than a pure line count and is a decent measure of the information conveyed.

I don't like this as a measure of the amount of code which must be
written and maintained, because copy&paste might actually come shorter
or equal to introducing appropriate named abstractions, while being much
worse design.

I think token count is the most objective measure from measures which
are reasonably easy to take automatically. If not token count, then
line count, and finally character count.

-- 
   __("<         Marcin Kowalczyk
   \__/       qrczak@knm.org.pl
    ^^     http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/

-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners