[Python-Dev] ...und zen, ze world!

Greg Wilson Greg.Wilson@baltimore.com
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:34:17 -0400


>From David Wheeler's paper estimating the size of stuff
in the Red Hat 7.1 distribution:

http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html

Language                   SLOC       (%)
C                      21461450  (71.18%)
C++                     4575907  (15.18%)
Shell (Bourne-like)      793238  ( 2.63%)
Lisp                     722430  ( 2.40%)
Assembly                 565536  ( 1.88%)
Perl                     562900  ( 1.87%)
Fortran                  493297  ( 1.64%) 
Python                   285050  ( 0.95%)
Tcl                      213014  ( 0.71%)
Java                     147285  ( 0.49%)
yacc/bison               122325  ( 0.41%)
Expect                   103701  ( 0.34%)
lex/flex                  41967  ( 0.14%)
awk/gawk                  17431  ( 0.06%)
Objective-C               14645  ( 0.05%)
Ada                       13200  ( 0.04%)
C shell                   10753  ( 0.04%)
Pascal                     4045  ( 0.01%)
sed                        3940  ( 0.01%)

Interesting that there's as much Perl as assembly code,
and more Fortran than Python :-).

Thanks,
Greg


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