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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to John Reagan   
   Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base   
   09 Apr 25 21:10:10   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:01:02 -0400, John Reagan wrote:   
      
   > I just looked at the largest MAR file in DCL.  It has 10,000 lines but   
   > many are comments and many are macro definitions.  Not actual VAX   
   > instructions.   
      
   I would count macro definition bodies in full, and each macro expansion as   
   one line. After all, macros are code written once and used multiple times,   
   just like function calls as far as source code is concerned.   
      
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