On 2/13/2012 4:21 AM, HIDEyuki Shimonishi wrote:
company for all the effort), but IMHO most developers will probably
want to choose a controller based on ease of use, documentation, and
preferred language -- all of which are very subjective.
...
One simple method to QUANTITATIVELY compare the productivity of controllers
would be comparing line counts needed for typical operations, functions, or
applications.
For example, many controllers provide simple learning switch functions as
their sample code, so we can count the lines of codes for this function
among different controllers.
Hi Hide-
Personally I don't find LOC very enlightening other than as a possible
warning sign if the size is vastly larger than other software with
similar functionality. One can relatively easily decrease LOC for some
app by abstracting away functionality that app needs into a few function
calls behind the controller's API, but it doesn't say much about what
happens when someone writes a different app that needs to do things that
aren't available behind those few minimized function calls. If LOC were
a driving motivator we would probably all be writing 1 line applications
written in Perl, which I don't think anyone wants.
-D
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