Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:43:57 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code layout and debugging time Message-ID: <200304222243.h3MMhvf6077123@bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:14:21 PDT." <3EA5948D.EDB810B2@mindspring.com>
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> If you ever find and Open Source that qualifies as "heavily > commented", let us know, and we can go take a look. TeX. lcc. Many assembly language programs written before 1980? If you consider the ratio of comment lines to code lines, any APL program with comments would qualify :-) Getting back to blank lines, their ratio to code lines is a very dubious metric of code quality. It is like evaluating prose quality by measuring sentence length or word frequency or number of big words used or something. Any correlation is bound to be a secondary effect at best. It is quite amazing that people get grants to measure such stupid things.
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