[FRIAM] IT is Not Sustainable

[Marcus Daniels]

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-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of lists at 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.
    
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