In my humble opinion, quality control begins at the simple fact of evaluate how much comment lines proliferate in any program. Here is a simple GUI to perform this tasks. It prints : * The total line count * The comment line count * How many comment lines there are against 100 lines of code -- [Sarnold] 13/01/2006 ---- proc LinesNComments {file} { set fd [open $file r] set comments 0 set lines 0 while {![eof $fd]} { gets $fd line set line [string trimleft [string trimleft $line \t]] if {[string equal $line ""]} { continue } # skip comments lines with no words if {[string index $line 0]=="#"} { if {![regexp {^\b*#+[a-zA-Z0-9]*} $line]} {continue} incr comments } incr lines } close $fd return [list $lines $comments] } wm title . "Check the use of comments in Tcl files" button .inspect -command Inspect -text "Inspect file" button .quit -command exit -text "Quit" pack .inspect .quit proc Inspect {} { set file [tk_getOpenFile] if {![file exists $file]} {tk_messageBox -message "No such file: $file";return} foreach {lines comments} [LinesNComments $file] {} set percentage [expr {double($comments)*100/double($lines-$comments)}] tk_messageBox -message "file $file : $lines lines and $comments comments lines, for 100 lines of code there are $percentage lines of comments" }