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How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?
How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?
Posted Mar 31, 2008 21:11 UTC (Mon) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386)In reply to: How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse? by ajross
Parent article: How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?
Nasal looks interesting. > Small! 146k source code. Is that in lines of code? ;-)
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How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?
Posted Mar 31, 2008 21:24 UTC (Mon) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]
Goodness no: kilobytes of C code. And it includes only the core library stuff, and ignores extension code (currently readline, pcre, sqlite, gtk and cairo) and soft-coded libraries (there's an XML parser and a few other gadgets). The current code in CVS is a little bigger now, at 158k. Looking at line endings as the LOC metric I count 5507 lines. Lines with semicolons are an easy trick to use if you want a measure that ignores comments (i.e. code complexity, not verbosity), and there are 2620 of those. I'm sure there are others out there, but I don't much care. The point is that it's small. :)