Parallel Rogue-like benchmark

[Walter Bright]

On 8/23/2013 10:23 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Like I said, you can still game it. I think some common sense
>> applies, not a literal interpretation.
> You conveniently snipped the rest of my post, which postulates a far
> better metric that's no harder to apply in practice. :)

You can't compress by visually looking at the code, and LOC is a unit that 
people fairly intuitively understand.


> All it takes is for you to run zip instead of wc -l, and you have a far
> better metric for measuring language expressiveness. Insisting on using
> LOC despite this just makes one lose one's credibility.

LOC ain't that far off, if you use it with some common sense rather than literal 
dogma.