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Metrics: Lines of Code

Anonymous (not verified)
Published on: 31/05/2012 Discussion Archived

 

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>> *         Lines of code - again without context this can mislead - lines >> of code for C is not comparable to lines of code for python. In any case - >> what use is this metric? Size of asset is not related to desirability of >> reuse. 
Well, things like # lines of code/comments maybe another interesting
metric. Think Ohloh does a good job of that.

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stijngoedertier (not verified) Thu, 31/05/2012 - 01:05

 

>> lines of code for C is not comparable to lines of code for python.

In version 0.3, software metricx is modelled as mulit-dimesional data. The number of lines of code would therefore need to be qualified by a programming language "dimension". 

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