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On 4/11/2025 3:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/8/2025 1:27 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> As I mentioned above, this is no longer about DCL. I picked the above
>> standalone example, a LL(1) RD parser, because it's a really good example
>> of the different scale of effort involved in writing it in Macro-32
>> instead of in C.
> 
> I have not made any claim about effort either.
> 
> Are you sure that you have understood the topic??
> 
> The classic assumptions are:
> 
> LOC = a * FP
> effort = b * LOC**c = a * b * FP**c
> 
> where a, b and c are language specific and c > 1.
> 
> The topic is whether the first one is true (strictly speaking
> it does not need to be linear for my original claim to be
> true - it would be true for any LOC = a * f(FP) where f
> does not depend on language).
> 
> Whether a[Macro-32] * b[Macro-32] * FP**c[Macro-32] is at a different
> scale than a[C] * b[C] * FP**c[C] does not say anything about that.

But of course one thing is theory - something else is reality.

Are there anybody in the audience that has a VAX with C and 5 minutes
to spare?

If so could you grab:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brookewerner/Recursive-Descent-Parser/refs/heads/master/recursiveDescentParser.c

and do a CC/LIST/MACH and count Macro-32 lines?

Arne