Fatuous Measures of Code Size

Sep 06, 2006 11:30

Beloved of IBM managers, KLOCs (thousands of line of code) are possibly one of ( Read more... )

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hazeii September 6 2006, 10:40:54 UTC
Reminds me of an oldy but goody!

Number of words:
56 in the Lord's prayer
297 in 10 commandments
1,324 in the American Declaration of Independence
26,911 in an EU directive on the export of duck eggs

So I had to do a count on my current project, naturally:-

$ find . -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h" -exec cat {} \; | wc
13892 35044 353158

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evil_c September 6 2006, 11:04:06 UTC
*laughs*
What a fantastic comparison!

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maluse September 6 2006, 14:40:32 UTC
Splendid! :-)

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