[racket-dev] my '312' this semester, how we compare to others

I had a request for line counts: 

 -- my own project used ~5,000loc, which includes comments and blank lines 
	-- of these, ~3,200 lines are 'real' code and some ~1,800 lines of rackunit code 

 -- the Java projects run at about 2x to 3x the line count (the best project comes in at close to 12Kloc)

 -- the C++ project is close to 4Kloc, w/o any tests 

 -- the Python project came out to 2,8000 lines, including tests 
	
Some caveats apply of course: 

 ++ Java is extremely verbose and cumbersome, even with parametric polymorphism. 

 ++ Only one project had a larger test ratio than my own. But the project was in Java and see preceding bullet. 
 
 ++ Only the C++ project has a GUI that is comparable to my own. 

 ++ Not one server lived up to the same quality level as mine. (I sent them a free-formatted string of 1,000,000 lines and that broke everyone's code).

 ++ Two of seven clients faulted all the time. One faulted on an intermittent basis. 

And there are other caveats. I am sure I could write more compact Java code than any of the students, though I doubt I'd get close to what I have. 

I will reflect some more and report on the language comparison a bit more. 

-- Matthias