[FRIAM] IT is Not Sustainable
Gary Schiltz
gary at naturesvisualarts.com
Thu Dec 26 03:27:50 EST 2019
Spot on.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 2:29 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at 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-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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