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I'll turn that on it's head. To me the interesting question is: do you need 100,000 or 1,000,000 lines to express the same ideas?

• kbd 16y ago
  And if you assume a relatively stable bug/loc ratio...
• kenjackson 16y ago
  So are you saying we don't need emacs?
  • ntoshev 16y ago
    He is saying an Emacs in Java would be 10x as big.
    • kenjackson 16y ago
      So he's saying that a Java version of Emacs would be 10 million lines of code long? That's ridiculously unlikely, unless given to monkeys to code -- and even then incompetent monkeys. This is just wishful thinking.
      • andrewcooke 16y ago
        Eclipse was 18 million lines in 2008 - http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-ganymede-18-million-li http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-ganymede-18-millio... Obviously it's not a direct comparison, but...
        • gphil 16y ago
          Wow, that is the biggest codebase I have ever heard of. Does anyone know of anything bigger than that?