>> a horrible measure of density << Now we know you find it unpleasant, please name your preferred measure and explain why you think it would be better for com

>> a horrible measure of density << Now we know you find it unpleasant, please name your preferred measure and explain why you think it would be better for comparing programs written in very different languages, with widely different source code styles and conventions. Incidentally, do you think much Java or C# gets written with Notepad? :-)