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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:38:10 -0400
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On 4/17/2025 8:21 AM, bill wrote:
> On 4/16/2025 9:29 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> Most modern code-counting tools _are_ language aware.  Whether
>> they do a better or worse job for each given language may be a
>> matter of debate, but most at least recognize different
>> languages and have some knowledge of their semantics.
>>
> I wonder how they would handle BASIC?  :-)
> 
> 10 FOR X = 1 TO 10
> 20 PRINT X
> 30 NEXT X
> 
> 10 FOR X = 1 TO 10:PRINT X:NEXT X
> 
> Is the snippet above one line of code or three?

Given that they count non-blank non-comment lines then ...

Arne