[racket-dev] relative lines of C in gracket vs. gracket2

From: namekuseijin (namekuseijin at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 28 15:56:52 EDT 2010

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM, namekuseijin <namekuseijin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:48 PM, John Clements
>> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>>> So, if I'm reading this correctly, we've gone from ~590K lines of C to about ~340K lines of C. That's amazing.
>>
>> hope that doesn't mean more obfuscated C code, though... :p
>
> Unfortunately, it does.  It's all hidden under layers of parentheses
> and strange names with characters like "-" and "?" in them.
> Completely unreadable.  Not a curly brace in sight, and I think it
> just ignores all the semicolons.

sounds like Greenspun's Tenth Rule... ;)


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