Monday, June 11, 2007, Mark Waser wrote:

MW>     The only scheme that I'd possibly accept based on lines of code
MW> would be one where if someone else wrote a tighter program, the original
MW> writer would get negative credit (i.e. something like
MW> if they wrote 7,000 lines and I re-did it with 1,000 -- I get credit
MW> for half the difference for a total of 3,000 and they get credit for
MW> 1,000 minus half the difference for a total of minus
MW> 2,000 -- noting, of course, that if their initial code was relatively
MW> good and only 1,500 and I wrote 1,000, they would still get 750 while I 
only get 250).

It should be hopeless either way - flexibility of code may as well
suffer from too tight implementation. Good balance just can't be estimated
by a simple ruler :)

-- 
 Vladimir Nesov                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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