Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!tslwat!louk
From: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program
Message-ID: <351@tslwat.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 91 03:26:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.214157.18633@ntpal.uucp# <9082@suns6.crosfield.co.uk# <MITCH.91Mar11175953@hq.af.mil# <4816@berry19.UUCP# <12609@pucc.Princeton.EDU# <350@tslwat.UUCP# <12632@pucc.Princeton.EDU#
Reply-To: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates)
Organization: Teleride Sage, Ltd., Waterloo
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In article <12632@pucc.Princeton.EDU# EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
#In article <350@tslwat.UUCP#, louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates) writes:
#
##In article <12609@pucc.Princeton.EDU# EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
###In article <4816@berry19.UUCP#, crocker@motcid.UUCP (Ronald T. Crocker) writes:
###
####
####Get off of this guy's back already.  He wants a simple C program to
####count C lines of code...
###
###A crude line counter has negative worth.  It will assess programs
###that use white space to clarify logic as "more complicated" than
###programs that look like a burst of line noise.
##
##All the popular measures are highly correlated (over 90% positive
##correlation in  the study  I saw)  so for most purposes it really
##doesn't matter what you use.
#
#This sounds impressive but it is quite vague.  "Correlated" with
#what?  Each other?  But if any number of measures "correlate"
#with each other, what does THAT mean?  
#

For every pair  of measures X and  Y in the group under study the
correlation of X and  Y exceeds  90%. Actually the minimum  might
have been higher than this. I'm just going by memory.

Lou Kates, Teleride Sage Ltd., louk%tslwat@watmath.waterloo.edu