From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA07437; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:09:52 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA07422 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:09:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from b0503.idoo.com (b0503.ifrance.com [82.196.4.71]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i5JC9oSH018535 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:09:50 +0200 Received: from 81.57.130.154 [81.57.130.154] by b0503.idoo.com id 0406191209.27040e; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:09:39 GMT Message-ID: <008401c455f6$51c5f4a0$9a823951@Pif> From: "Nicolas Janin" To: "Nicolas FRANCOIS \(AKA El Bofo\)" , References: <06D9583C-C0FD-11D8-8AC7-000393863F70@exomi.com> <20040619022648.7864665d.nicolas.francois@free.fr> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Great Programming Language Shootout Revived Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:09:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 if-filter0: Y X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40D42D0E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 shootout:01 50,000:99 kilobytes:01 shootout:01 nicolas:01 gratuitement:96 somewhere:04 proportional:05 suspect:05 obvious:06 quite:06 origine:92 programming:07 measured:08 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Thinking about it a little more, the good thing with LOC count is, as I've read somewhere else, in large softwares (say > 50,000 LOC), LOC count was quite a fairly good measure of the size of a project in terms of spent resources. In other words, according to surveys, the effort involved (as measured in man-months) was fairly proportional to the LOC count, which is why LOC count still prevails as a measurement of a software project. However there has never been any survey measuring code size in terms of zipped kilobytes unfortunately, although one might suspect the correlation between this measurement and the effort involved would be stronger than with LOC count. Also, it is not obvious at all how this translates to small programs of <200 lines like in the shootout. ___[ Pub ]____________________________________________________________ Inscrivez-vous gratuitement sur Tandaime, Le site de rencontres ! http://rencontre.rencontres.com/index.php?origine=4 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners