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To: harley@argote.ch (Robert Harley)
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Subject: Re: Java is for kiddies
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Date: 28 Aug 2002 12:58:26 -0400

>>>>> "R" == Robert Harley <harley@argote.ch> writes:

    R> Depends who writes it.  One guy will write a bug every 5 lines,
    R> another every 5000 lines.  Put them both on a project and that
    R> will average out to a bug every 4.995 lines.  

And a Java program, due to the extensive class libraries, will weigh
in at 10% the number of lines of the equivalent C program.  QED.

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