RE: COUNTING LINES OF CODE

["alan shore" <SHOREA@xxxxxxxx>]

Boy I was just about to go into my What is this idiotic !@#$%^&*() talking 
about, until I read point 5. Good one.

>>> "Hall, Philip" <phall@spss.com> 07/11/01 10:11AM >>>
> We were recently asked to give a number of lines of code 
> count of the "home-grown" programs we have written.  We 
> have a bought package, but they want to know outside of 
> that what the number of lines of code we have.  
>
> Anyone have a way to do this?  I have no idea WHY this 
> is important but...

It's very important. It has been scientifically and statistically proven
that the real number of lines of code (excluding comments, white space,
blank lines, and all other non-functional sections) can be used to determine
the following;

1. The quality of the code
2. The quality of the programmers who coded the source
3. The failure rate of the programs compiled from that source
4. The level of understanding of the language, by the programmers of the
source
5. None of the above

;-)
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