Posted by
Russell Standish on
Jul 19, 2006; 8:50pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/no-subject-tp522127p522178.html
Like weighing Stroustrup versus Kernighan & Richie ?? I think the C++
book weighs 4 times as much as the C book, but I'm sure C++ is more
than 4 times as powerful...
Cheers
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:36:00PM +0200, Carlos Gershenson wrote:
> > 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
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>
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/>
> ?Tendencies tend to change...?
>
>
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