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Subject: Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:41:55 -0400
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On 4/17/2025 7:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:56:17 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> If we discuss what is the "right" answer, then I would actually say 2.
>>
>> for i := 1 to 10 do writeln(i)
>>
>> for i := 1 to 10 do
>>      writeln(i)
>>
>> for i := 1 to 10 do begin
>>      writeln(i)
>> end;
>>
>> for i := 1 to 10 do begin
>>      writeln(i)
>> end;
>>
>> for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++) printf("%d\n", i);
>>
>> for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
>>       printf("%d\n", i);
>>
>> for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
>>       printf("%d\n", i);
>> }
>>
>> for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
>> {
>>       printf("%d\n", i);
>> }
>>
>> I would say 2 for all.
> 
> How much difference would such distinctions make in real-world code,
> anyway? I suspect not much. Longer compound statements would dominate
> shorter ones in the line count.

It is all based on averages.

If person X write a tiny program and person Y write a the
same tiny program, then the non-blank and non-comment line
count may vary a lot.

But if a team of a 100 developers write an application close to
one million lines of code and another team of another 100 developers
write the same application, then  then the non-blank and
non-comment line count will be relative close.

Relative deviation decreases when the size increases.

Arne