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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk> Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:07:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: <vtr1v5$pjeb$1@dont-email.me> References: <vsh5m5$3is6e$1@dont-email.me> <vtj025$18n4d$1@dont-email.me> <vtj2tu$1cfo8$1@dont-email.me> <67fee5b8$0$708$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <vtplin$9us$2@reader1.panix.com> <m6ca1qF8fe6U1@mid.individual.net> <6800f631$0$709$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <m6cfe5F8fe6U2@mid.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:07:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93a9aa36a2f13cfcd6229df4a1054f91"; logging-data="839115"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18N3WtKnncD3KfPiXdQ7TGfhOPTsNmxzKE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kk8tEdpHMk8j94CUb9+ugtzEJds= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <m6cfe5F8fe6U2@mid.individual.net> Bytes: 2292 On 4/17/2025 9:53 AM, bill wrote: > On 4/17/2025 8:38 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> 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 ... > > Yes, but which is it? > Would it be three in one case and one in the other even though it is the > exact same snippet? There are 3 and 1 non-blank non-comment lines in the two snippets. > There are lies, damn lies and statistics. :-) Arne