survey

[beliavsky at aol.com]

igouy at yahoo.com wrote:
> > The Language Shootout at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ has
code
> > samples in many languages, both interpreted and compiled, including
> the
> > ones you mentioned. Don't trust the lines-of-code statistics,
though
> --
> > the LOC measure is wrongly shown as zero for several codes, and
> comment
> > lines are counted, so that languages with programmers who use more
> > comments are penalized.
>
> afaik the LOC measure does not count comment lines - is there a
> specific example?

(this message is OT for c.l.py, sorry)

The "random Fortran Intel program" at
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=random&lang=ifc&id=0&sort=fullcpu
is said to have 40 lines, but excluding blank lines and comment lines
(those that start with "!") I count 22.

The "ackermann Fortran Intel program" at
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/benchmark.php?test=ackermann&lang=ifc&id=0&sort=fullcpu
is wrongly said to have 0 lines.

There are other cases of these problems.