From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-04-06, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 4/4/2025 2:00 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Wow. I had no idea it was now that big. OTOH, bash has got a _lot_ more   
   >> functionality in it than DCL does.   
   >   
   > 6 times more?   
   >   
      
   It wouldn't surprise me, in addition to the higher-level constructs that   
   bash has when compared to DCL.   
      
   >>   
   >> The problem with that analysis is what DCL does.   
   >>   
   >> It basically parses, validates, and executes commands it has been given.   
   >> That is something which can be implemented a lot more easily and concisely   
   >> in a HLL with abstracted data structure capabilities (which includes   
   >> even C) than an assembly language with no such capabilities.   
   >   
   > It is not obvious to me that:   
   >   
   > (LOC/FP for Macro-32) / (LOC/FP for C)   
   >   
   > is a lot higher for a shell than for the average application - data   
   > structures are not anything special for shells.   
   >   
   > But maybe.   
      
   It's a lot more complicated than that.   
      
   For example, take a LL(1) RD parser. Even ignoring the processing   
   of the results from the parser, how much code (and how much effort)   
   do you think it would take to implement it in Macro-32 compared to C ?   
      
   Simon.   
      
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