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From: jcgs@wundt.harlqn.uucp (John Sturdy)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: C source lines in file
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Date: 23 Aug 89 09:58:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: garye@hp-ptp.HP.COM's message of 18 Aug 89 20:09:53 GMT

garye@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Gary_Ericson):
>Instead of counting lines of code, maybe we need to find a way to measure
>"intelligence density".  I don't know of any such measure...

For the same system, time taken to compile might reflect this fairly
closely.
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