newLisp vs Perl executable

[tburton]

I wrote a Perl script a couple years ago that loops through all *.cfm files in a given directory, grabs the documentation from each, and writes that documentation to a text file. Using Perl2exe, the source was packaged into an exe of 347 KB.

I rewrote that script in newLisp and, using link.lsp, the source was packaged into an exe of only 174 KB.

About 50% smaller!

[noah]

How was the documentation included in the *.CFM files? Was it in the comments sections?

Lutz brought up the idea of embedding documentation in Javadoc-style comments in newLISP modules. He might be working on it, I don't know.

-Noah

[noah]

Nice, tburton!

Not meaning to ignore your point.

-noah

[tburton]

The documentation in the .cfm files is included within "home grown" comment sections.

Tim

[Lutz]

Yes I will do a simple newlispdoc system, similar to javadoc.

Lutz