Dave, I was writing FORTH on the COSMAC 1802 in the late 1970s. I still love the language. I actually took a cut at a sound card driver in FORTH on the PC when I started on the SDR-1000 prototype. It is a great control language.
Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: ger...@flexradio.com Web: www.flexradio.com <http://www.flex-radio.com/> Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dave Gomberg <da...@wcf.com> wrote: > At 11:16 11/10/2010, William H. Fite wrote: > >> I don't write code, myself, >> > > I do. Have for over 50 years. Close to 100K lines of code written in > that time. > Yes, that's 2K lines per year, 6 lines per day. One of the slowest was > about > 2 months for 57 lines of code. Language was MS Basic for the Commodore > PET, > function was a language interpreter for a CAI language called PILOT. The > 57 > lines were about 200 statements (multi statements per line were permitted > in > that version of BASIC). > > > at Google, two lines >> per programmer per day would be considered about right. >> > > Writing for others is harder. Some of the code I wrote was for others. > > > Second, Google, >> Microsoft, all the biggies have not dozens or hundreds but thousands of >> programmers and analysts working on their projects--or sometimes on >> *a*project at a time. >> > > But the trick is to write a cool OS in a few thousand lines of code, not > many millions. FORTH was about 2K lines of assembler and another 2K > lines of FORTH. Now that is elegant. An OS, and an application > interpreter > with database in 4K lines. > > > Finally, that the ostensible 50,000,000 lines of code >> > > Be careful the target you choose, you might hit it. And then be very > sorry. > Windows is a prime example. > > > > > > -- > Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE Programming since 1959 > All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
