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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 21:10:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:01:02 -0400, John Reagan wrote:

> I just looked at the largest MAR file in DCL.  It has 10,000 lines but
> many are comments and many are macro definitions.  Not actual VAX
> instructions.

I would count macro definition bodies in full, and each macro expansion as 
one line. After all, macros are code written once and used multiple times, 
just like function calls as far as source code is concerned.