About the Expressiveness of D

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 2 April 2013 at 17:33:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/2/2013 2:53 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> I also have a strong feeling that LOC per commit reflects too 
>> many different
>> factors to be really reliable as a comparison, e.g. it 
>> probably depends quite
>> strongly on the age/maturity of a project, the rate of 
>> development, and other
>> factors.
>
> Consider also that this LOC numbers are not lines of code - 
> they're also lines of comments! D's ddoc encourages writing 
> considerably more lines of comments than C does.

While I don't know what this specific report used, but comments 
are generally factored out of LOC and have their own count.

I usually find the build in unittests to cause more skew since 
those are counted as LOC.