Fun, but pointless, code metrics
I’m not really sure what motivated this, but I just used cloc to count the lines of code in both the darcs source and the git source. Here are the numbers. The git source tree:1951 text files.
1836 unique files.
848 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.51 T=15.0 s (72.3 files/s, 20377.3 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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C 267 15517 13469 100133
Bourne Shell 589 15127 5508 84826
Perl 40 3798 3441 23825
Tcl/Tk 39 1453 375 9762
C/C++ Header 99 1977 3557 8301
make 12 413 434 2673
Bourne Again Shell 1 144 110 2165
Lisp 2 231 170 1779
Python 13 465 442 1384
ASP.Net 8 141 0 931
m4 2 87 21 858
CSS 2 154 24 710
Javascript 2 113 319 477
Assembly 1 26 100 98
XSLT 7 15 29 77
DOS Batch 1 0 0 1
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SUM: 1085 39661 27999 238000
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The darcs source tree:
561 text files.
549 unique files.
57 files ignored.
http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.51 T=189.0 s (2.7 files/s, 298.0 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Haskell 169 4361 7374 27760
Bourne Shell 300 2071 2869 8333
C 7 325 153 1494
HTML 5 41 4 316
C/C++ Header 12 92 83 308
Bourne Again Shell 3 51 95 180
Perl 2 43 36 130
CSS 1 21 3 79
make 1 12 6 53
Lisp 1 5 6 23
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SUM: 501 7022 10629 38676
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Take those categories with a grain of salt. For example, the darcs source does not have any lisp files. It is interesting that git has 200k more lines than darcs. I’m not sure what that says. C is far more verbose than Haskell? Although, that’s not really fair because they also have an order of magnitude more shell code. If you’re just comparing C to Haskell it’s a factor of about 4.