Matt,
On Nov 21, 2004, at 10:42 PM, Matt Olson wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:16:25 -0500, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Some thoughts (in no particular order): 1) Look at statements, not LOC. Otherwise, you start unfairly penalizing people who uncuddle their elses.
I like Kernighan & Pike's metric (in The Practice of Programming): my copy's at home, but IIRC they count tokens, rather than statements or LOC, when comparing languages.
Thats why i was thinking we could count perl opcodes. I would think they would be a great way to tell the actual "size" of a given block of code. But then again, tokens is not bad either and the PPI project (http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/PPI/) already has a high quality Perl Tokenizer available.
Incidentally, I strongly recommend TPoP as a "practical software engineering" book.
Been on my Amazon to-buy forever actually.
Steve
--Matt
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