Re: module/pgm analysis (lines of code)

On 18/12/2007, at 5:40 PM, Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Compare this:

c k1list Chain File

versus

Chain (field1:
field2:
field3:
%subst(field4:
1:
%len(%trim(field5))):
field6) File;

Ka-ching!

They are both ONE line of code. Any decent code-counting tool will handle this as one line and count comment lines separately from code lines.

Lines of code is a useful estimation tool but a useless productivity measurement.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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