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From: bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:21:11 -0400
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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?

bill