[Haskell-cafe] Great language shootout: reloaded

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 11/11/06, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Sebastian,
>
> Saturday, November 11, 2006, 3:51:09 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Meassuring lines of code is certainly not perfect, but IMO it's a lot
> > more useful as a metric then gzipped bytes.
>
> why they don't use word count??

I don't know. I suppose it's quite difficult to define a useful
meaning of "word".

I mean:
foo=\xs->[y*2|y<-xs]

Would count as one word, I suppose, though the number of tokens is far greater.

Though I do think a word count as well, would hold more intuitive
meaning than gzipped bytes.

/S

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