The metric calculation is based on the following article and calculates the program size in lines of
code, excluding blank lines and comments.
Article: TheLinesofCodeMetricasaPredictorofProgramFaults:ACriticalAnalysis by Taghi M.
Khoshgoftaar and John C. Munson.
See the paragraph about Lines of Code in the article:
A description of the specific quantitative complexity data collected for each program is as follows:
... program size in lines of code (non-comment, non-blank lines) in program (LOC).
perl v5.40.0 2024-11-17 Analizo::Metric::LinesOfCode(3pm)