Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base

On 4/17/2025 1:48 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2025-04-17, bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> 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.
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I wonder how they would handle BASIC?  :-)
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10 FOR X = 1 TO 10
20 PRINT X
30 NEXT X
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10 FOR X = 1 TO 10:PRINT X:NEXT X
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Is the snippet above one line of code or three?

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Given that they count non-blank non-comment lines then ...
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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?
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 Number of statements, not number of lines. That makes it 3 statements
following my reasoning or 2 with Arne's reasoning. Either way, it's
still the exact same number of statements in both cases.
 

But I thought we were talking LoC - Lines of Code and the ability of
a machine to make that determination in order to provide accurate
statistical information.
Hard to have a discussion when the goalposts keep moving.
bill