Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:35:17 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: kalum AT goatbeard DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Watcom C++ opened? In-Reply-To: <200008251439.KAA20175@envy.delorie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, DJ Delorie spoke the following immortal words, > > > But I am curious, how is asserting that a product has /more/ lines > > of code making a case for it? > > Lines of code is a totally useless measure of software, unless you're > in marketing. Sure lines of code have no meaning whatsoever regarding a apps performance or functionality, but it is unfortunately sad to see programmers say "Hey I can do that code with just three keystrokes", etc etc, and some of them use the "?" operator where a simple "if" statement would do. FWIW most often (allways?) there is no difference between the assembly code generated using "?" and with the code generated using a "if" statement. Many people not knowing this use the "?" operator under the mistaken assumtion that it will produce better assembly code than using a if statement..... Best Wishes, Grendel -- .---------------------.---------------------.----{)--. | /"__ ._ _ _ _| _ |`-.grendel AT lintux DOT cx.-'(]__/|| | | \__/ | (-'| |(_|(-'l_ `-===============-' [_] .-: | `--------------------------------------------/|\/| |-' ProZilla, the new Download Accelerator for Linux (GPL),