D code length vs other languages

[Jab]

On Friday, 6 December 2019 at 00:26:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 December 2019 at 22:21:13 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html
>>
>> I'm unsure of the accuracy of the methodology of determining 
>> this, but D does fairly well in it.
>
> It is probably better to look at the examples on the Rosetta 
> website. Seems to me that some try to be terse, yet others try 
> to show off language features. So, for the same language you 
> have sometimes very verbose low level and very terse high level 
> solutions (some are clearly cheating).

They also use different (non-standard) libraries, which really 
depends on what they implement and what kind of interface they 
provide. Some of the C++ code examples have variables defined at 
the start in old C-style. With multiple variables just being 
declared on 7+ more lines. The examples weren't intended to be 
used a means to measure number of lines of code. Even on the page 
it points out that comments weren't taken into consideration. 
This data is extremely unreliable and should be taken with a huge 
grain of salt.