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"share most of your code" is very much false in most cases. you are exaggerating by a huge margin for any serious piece of software
by kuratkull 5y ago
"share most of your code" is very much false in most cases. you are exaggerating by a huge margin for any serious piece of software
- lmilcin 5y agoAm I? How many serious applications have more code than the operating system, all libraries it uses, all extra tools running there to make it work/usable/maintainable, all CPU design, and so on? Even if you just look at the Linux kernel there aren't many applications that have more code than it has. If you add all standard library and basic OS and additional tools like SSH and likes that you typically have installed then I am not even sure there exists any single application that would have more code than that.
- aliswe 5y agoi think this analogy seems very good its also interesting that a water flea had more genes than us, and something like a worm had about the same ...