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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:15:35 +0100
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On 12/09/2024 16:46, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 12.09.2024 16:16, Bart wrote:
>>               Spaces    Hard tabs
>>
>>   C++         829       682         characters
> 
> You are counting spaces, tabs and characters to characterize programs'
> quality or legibility or what? - Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

I'm counting the number of characters needed to express the function. 
Since one of BM's claims is that the C++ example was smaller than C.

The difference between the two columns is whether indentation uses hard 
tabs or spaces. The C version is more deeply indentated so that makes a 
difference. (Also the width of the tabs, but everything was measured 
with tabs set to 4 characters.)