Whittling Away with Repetition January 15th, 2013
Patrick Stein

I’ve now done the Bowling Game Kata from the previous video seven more times imperatively as I did in the video and two more times with a functional style.

Each time I did it imperatively, I decreased the overall size of the code. The functional code is smaller still and got smaller on my second try. The previous video was bowling-20130102.lisp and the functional versions end in -f.lisp.

% lisp_count *.lisp
70 bowling-20121230.lisp
70 bowling-20130102.lisp
64 bowling-20130106.lisp
62 bowling-20130107.lisp
64 bowling-20130109.lisp
66 bowling-20130110.lisp
62 bowling-20130113.lisp
54 bowling-20130113b-f.lisp
57 bowling-20130114.lisp
57 bowling-20130114b.lisp
51 bowling-20130114c-f.lisp
Total:
677

These SLOC numbers were generated using David A. Wheeler’s ‘SLOCCount’. Straight up byte, word, and line counts follow the same trend.

Soon, I will record another run through the imperative style and a run through the functional style.

Here are the most recent versions of each style:

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