Spot on. On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 2:29 AM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote:
> Most programmers won't struggle to rationalize or improve code written by > other people. The problem is that people are selfish. They think that > their 10K LOC problem is beautiful and nimble, but that 1M LOC was once > that too. It's the behavior of teenagers. > > On 12/25/19, 10:47 PM, "Friam on behalf of Russell Standish" < > friam-boun...@redfish.com on behalf of li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > It's all about the LOC! Actually, I kind of agree - having worked on > some MegaLOC codebases that functionally seemed to be no more complex > than a 10KLOC project I'm involved in, the 10KLOC project is much more > nimble - compile times are far less, making changes to the code easier > and bugs less troublesome to winkle out. > > I've also refactored or rewritten pieces of code to slash the LOC by a > factor of 3 or more for that particular section (eg 3KLOC -> 1KLOC) - > but usually when bugs and problems kept on cropping up in that > section. > > Even though the LOC is an entirely bogus measurement - if you paid a > programmer by LOC, you'd get boilerplate and crappy comments. > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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