Subj : Re: curve for verbosity in a language
To   : comp.programming
From : pantagruel
Date : Sat Aug 06 2005 10:59 am

I don't think that LOC is verbosity,

however your suggestion is close, how about:

if the character count between two programs doing the same task differ
then the program with the greater character count is verbose in
comparison to the first with each character being a point of verbosity.
I think this should include a normalization of whitespace.

Performance differences in the task between the programs affect the
verbosity, the question then is how is a difference in performance
calculated into program verbosity.

At that point one could begin to make reasonable statements such as
language x has been shown to be verbose in comparison to language y for
problems of type z.

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