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 > Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium > http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/ > > ?Tendencies tend to change...? > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
