Code Metrics

[Michael A Barnhart]

Well back in the good old FORTRAN days it was 1:1 and I feel that was fairly valid for then. You had to document why and where techincial info came from for it. Now if you have no other documentation I would think this is fairly valid. I am talking about engineering type code with lots of references. I hope you have some other documentation though. UML, Visio did not exist in the good ol days :) "Don't be so anti-american, would you? KaЯl (to Paul Watson on Baseball Bats) 26 Nov '03 "

[Nick Seng]

[Wise Sage Mode]As long as it needs to be, my young grasshopper. As long as it needs to be.[/Wise Sage Mode]

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[RChin]

According to my trusty bible of programming development, Code Complete: ..The number of comments, however, will be a side effect of the process itself. Rather than focusing on the number of comments, focus on whether each comment is efficient. If the comments describe why the code was written and meet the other criteria established in this chapter, you'll have enough comments (Code Complete, Chapter 19, Commenting Techniques). All in all, I think the comment-code ratio varies on the situation and complexity that needs to be explained. There are no hard and fast rule, but a little bit of common sense goes a long way.

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[Paul Watson]

[Tiny glasshopper mode]Exactly, sensei. Same goes for code:comment ratios. As much as it needs to be.[/Tiny glasshopper mode] regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?

[David Parrott]

Paul Watson wrote: How long is a piece of string. Double half of its length. David Parrott

[Ian Darling]

Paul Watson wrote: How long is a piece of string strlen("a piece of string"); (or for the VBers): Len("a piece of string") Duh! :-D -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky

[Megan Forbes]

So you're looking for the "Golden Mean" of programming then? :-D

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[Philip Fitzsimons]

twice the length from the middle to the end ;P

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[Tim Deveaux]

Is than an African string or a European string?

[Paul Watson]

In Africa we use stolen copper telephone wire. And it is as long as we can get it. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?

[Tomas Petricek]

What.. :confused: ? I don't know that !! [Whooooooom !]

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[Tim Deveaux]

:-D

[Tim Deveaux]

:wtf::~

[DRHuff]

I always heard that How Long was a Chinaman. Dave Huff In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. (Yogi Berra)