Re: [9fans] lies, damn lies and kloc.

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

is this a cry for help or have you looked at any of the code?

having fun yet?

brucee

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> according the the reference below, c# has more types (39509)
> than 8c+8l has lines of code:
>
>        ; wc -l /sys/src/cmd/^(cc 8c 8l)^/*.[ch]|grep total
>          28619 total
>
> perhaps it would be more fair to compare /sys/include.  but
> that's got less than 8kloc.
>
> ironicly titled reference:
>        http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/03/18/number-of-types-in-the-net-framework.aspx
>
> i think rob may have recalled a more enlightened era when
> he called oo the roman numerals of computing.
>
> - erik
>
>