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20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much. I probably output that much in about 2-3 months of biomedical research so there has to be more to it th
by rxhernandez 9y ago
20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much. I probably output that much in about 2-3 months of biomedical research so there has to be more to it than that.
- coldtea 9y ago20,000 lines of code casually churned out in 2-3 months will be a nightmare to a) understand, b) maintain, much less to rewrite...
- cocoablazing 9y agoIt sounds like he’s talking about scripts generated for research, rather than code for components intended to be persistent.
- rxhernandez 9y agoPrecisely this.
- jlg23 9y ago>> legacy code that has been gradually added to since the 1980s > 20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much. It's not "20k lines of code" but "n lines of code that grew organically over decades to 20k lines" - with the help of probably way more than 100 people who all are not trained as developers. I think it's a safe bet to say the current state only has a faint memory of being a consistent code base.
- geezerjay 9y ago> 20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much. Once I spent close to a month hunting down a subtle but nasty bug in a number crunching module which was perhaps around 2k LoC. Writing code is very easy. Verifying and validating number crunching code is very hard and very time consuming.
- shitgoose 9y ago20k of fortran code is a lot. there are no beans/interfaces/adapters/mediators/listeners - just the code that does business.
- CalChris 9y ago20,000 lines of your code is one thing. 20,000 lines of someone else's code is another thing entirely. 20,000 lines of many other people's code can be insane.