The idea that we can establish some sort of formal complexity measurement
for documentation is... interesting.
Although I think there's more joy to be had in measuring EBNF, or the size
of some other parser grammar considered complete for the language.
I'd also like to briefly explore one of the d
Kevin Wright is fond of repeating:
Java (3rd Edition): 649 pages, 7932 KB
Scala (current in trunk): 191 pages, 1312 KB
therefore Scala is less complex.
But has anyone actually analysed the specs in detail?
In code coverage terms, how many distinct "code paths" are there in
each spec. That is sure