Posted by
Carlos Gershenson on
Jul 20, 2006; 11:36am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/no-subject-tp522127p522177.html
> Crude quantitative measures are no good. For instance, the intro of OO
> techniques can increase functionality with sometimes a decrease in the
> number of lines of code. An example close to home for me was the
> change from EcoLab 3 to EcoLab 4. The number of lines halved, but
> functionality was increased maybe tenfold (**subjective measure
> warning**).
Then maybe a measure could be the length of the manuals
+documentation, which reflect the functionality of a particular program?
(Well, Francis just switched to MacOS X from MacOS 9, and the one
thing he complained was that there was no manual... he didn't like
the amount of help files)
If this would be reasonable, I don't see that these have increased
too much, since the size of books hasn't increased noticeably... in
Unix/Linux you could measure it better with the size of man and how-
to pages
Best regards,
Carlos Gershenson...
Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/ ?Tendencies tend to change...?