advice, building livecd for translators

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:50:36 -0400
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> > It's getting a bit verbose and over-commented,  sorry.
> > Bloat is setting in already...  <grin>
> 
> You're not kidding! 
> 
> I saved that script to a file, and look:
> 
> derek at bella:~$ egrep ^# /tmp/test | wc
>       5      43     281
> derek at bella:~$ egrep -v "^(#|\s*$)" /tmp/test | wc
>       9      34     320
> 
> It's not even a 2:1 ratio of program lines to documentation (excluding the
> shebang, and blank lines).  There are actually _more_ words of
> documentation than there are of code!  It's a shocking development in the
> Free Software world!!!!!!!!  (I'm not sure this keyboard has enough !s to
> accurately show my astonishment).

Oh, the shame !

;-)
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