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Which is it? (Score:1)

by kaare (663)

So is this because Perl developers write more documentation?

Or because Perl is so much more efficient that the actual code just aren't that many lines of code for the same functionality?
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  by jplindstrom (594)
  
  Or is it that POD is slightly (not a lot, but still) more verbose than just comments, with all the blank lines?
  
  (Or are they not counted?)
  - Re:Which is it? (Score:2)
    
    by schwern (1528) on 2008.01.03 22:43 (#59940) Homepage Journal
    
    Their metrics are screwy, but it appears that currently POD is counted as Perl if it's in a .pm file. Blank lines are counted as blank lines.
    
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