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CPAN: $677 Million of Perl

Posted by michael on from the wooden-nickel dept.

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?"

3 of 277 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Huh? by _14k4 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    sloccount

  2. Relatively low? by stinkyfingers · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re:Useless Measurement? by Geoff-with-a-G · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?