CPAN: $677 Million of Perl

Adam K writes "It had to happen eventually. CPAN has finally gotten the sloccount treatment, and the results are interesting. At 15.4 million lines of code, CPAN is starting to approach the size of the entire Redhat 6.2 distribution mentioned in David Wheeler's original paper. Could this help explain perl's relatively low position in the SourceForge.net language numbers?"

Comments

yeah, but try removing the punctuation

[WebMasterJoe]

If you take out the punctuation, though, it's down to twelve lines of code.

Re:yeah, but try removing the punctuation

[haystor]

You mean:

If you take out the punctuation, it's down to twelve lines of comments.

Bahhh!

[justanyone]

Bahhh, I know people richer than that!

Now compute the economic gain of using Perl vs. any other language:
Perl vs. Nothing : $677M
Perl vs. C : $1.25B
Perl vs. C# : $2.77B
Perl vs. Hand Optimized Assembly on Honeywell DPS-3E running GCOS operating system: Priceless

Re:Huh?

[_14k4]

Here, I'll repost the link from the article you never read:

sloccount

Relatively low?

[stinkyfingers]

It's relatively low because that list is in alphabetical order!

Re:Mining CPan

[Dr. Zowie]

>"C#"
You misspelled "INTERCAL".

Re:Huh?

[servognome]

/. response efficiency warning!
To conserve server resources in the future please update your response "Did you even attempt to click the underlined word 'sloccount'? If not, do it now and read the first line of the first paragraph." with the more efficient "RTFA" or "RTFA you stupid noob" if you are not into the whole brevity thing.

Re:Useless Measurement?

[Geoff-with-a-G]

What is more important, lines of code or lines of quality code? People are always so impressed with sheer numbers. Quality is important.

Seriously.
And it's Perl.
I thought the whole point was that you could write a massive Perl program in a single line.
15.4 million just tells me that CPAN is getting sloppy. Let's knock that down to say, 17 HUGE lines, okay?

Re:Low position?

[lawpoop]

Yes, but close to 75% of all those PHP Projects are a DVD/CD cataloging system.

Re:Subject rejected - looks too much like ASCII ar

[paster]

Look at this: XHTML parser using K programming language
Perl is really clean language :)