From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fi.sn.net!newsfeed2.fi.sn.net!news-stoc.telia.net!217.209.241.210.MISMATCH!news-stod.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <11b4d.3849$d5.30042@newsb.telia.net> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:50:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1095843005 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:50:05 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:50:05 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3922 Date: 2004-09-22T08:50:05+00:00 List-Id: Kevin Cline wrote: > Ada/Charles 158 lines, 9 files > C++ 76 lines > Perl 14 lines Neat. Now let's take three identical persons who haven't seen this=20 program before, give them one version each, and see how long it takes=20 them to understand it. In other words: What matters is how easy the program is to read and=20 maintain. The line count is interesting only to the extent that it=20 affects the readability. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu