From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 15:45:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED43037B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitblocks.com (bitblocks.com [209.204.185.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521B343FDF for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bitblocks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3MMhvf6077123; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Message-Id: <200304222243.h3MMhvf6077123@bitblocks.com> To: Terry Lambert In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:14:21 PDT." <3EA5948D.EDB810B2@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:43:57 -0700 From: Bakul Shah cc: Jonathon McKitrick cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code layout and debugging time X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:45:18 -0000 > If you ever find and Open Source that qualifies as "heavily > commented", let us know, and we can go take a look. TeX. lcc. Many assembly language programs written before 1980? If you consider the ratio of comment lines to code lines, any APL program with comments would qualify :-) Getting back to blank lines, their ratio to code lines is a very dubious metric of code quality. It is like evaluating prose quality by measuring sentence length or word frequency or number of big words used or something. Any correlation is bound to be a secondary effect at best. It is quite amazing that people get grants to measure such stupid things.