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I beg to differ. https://youtu.be/yVpbFMhOAwE https://youtu.be/yVpbFMhOAwE

• zardeh 10y ago
  Right, a single book has on the order of 4-500 pages, longer ones have more, but we'll take the average, and an average book has....30 lines of text per page, so 13500 lines per book. That makes the kernel ~1000 books, which is a lot of books, but avid readers do read 50+ books per year (my father probably does close to double this). That makes reading the entire source absolutely possible, in the order of 10s of years, which is a long time, but then, the kernel has been around for what, 25 now? So there are a number of maintainers who have been around long enough to have read through the entire kernel. Compare that to google, where[1] there are almost as many unique source files as the kernel has lines (though to be fair, many are autogenerated). [1]: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-store...