From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-11-19T03:38:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Reason #642 to use Ruby instead of C++ -Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:04:19AM +0900, Martin Weber wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:47:00AM +0900, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
> > (...)
> > The essential mistake is counting lines. What one should count is the
> > number of characters.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> for (LI n=b.begin(); n != b.end(); ++n)
> 	if (_a[nd].find(*n) != _a[nd].end())
> 		ec++;
> 
> The essential mistake is trying to count something. Go feel & figure.

Somebody proposed the number of tokens as quite a reasonable measurement,
to be taken with a grain of salt as all metrics.

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