<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 1:42 AM <<a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca">peter@easthope.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Wojciech,<br>
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From: "Skulski, Wojciech" <<a href="mailto:skulski@pas.rochester.edu" target="_blank">skulski@pas.rochester.edu</a>><br>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 04:04:36 +0000<br>
> But I am now facing three thousand lines of my Oberon-2 library.<br>
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Roughly 50 pages. Someone moderately skilled in the language might <br>
spend a few hours revising a page? Pessimistically say four <br>
hours/page? For 50 pages, roughly 200 hours or a month. <br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you are considering bidding for this work I recommend you sharpen your pencil ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>To do a reality check on your estimates and in the interest of practising what I preach I have just updated one of my more significant applications to eliminate every multiple RETURN. This is written in Component Pascal which allows such things (I'm only human - I've used them in moments of laziness).The results are as follows:</div><div><br></div><div>18,800 Lines of code</div><div>37 Modules</div><div><br></div><div>Before: 181 RETURNs</div><div>After: 126 RETURNs </div><div><br></div><div>The edit and compilation exercise took a total of 3 hours and I had the added satisfaction of being able to eliminate a LOOP in the process :)</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the changes were mechanical but there are a few which will require more than a smoke test.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Chris Burrows</div><div>CFB Software</div><div>https;//<a href="http://ww.astrobe.com">ww.astrobe.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>