Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base

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.
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for i := 1 to 10 do writeln(i)
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for i := 1 to 10 do
     writeln(i)
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for i := 1 to 10 do begin
     writeln(i)
end;
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for i := 1 to 10 do begin
     writeln(i)
end;
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for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++) printf("%d\n", i);
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for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
      printf("%d\n", i);
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for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
      printf("%d\n", i);
}
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for(i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
      printf("%d\n", i);
}
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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