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What is it about "today's world" that makes software require a larger code base? If anything, we have much higher-level languages which require far less code th
by oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
What is it about "today's world" that makes software require a larger code base? If anything, we have much higher-level languages which require far less code than in the olden days. Anyway, my point was more about the unix nature of building small programs, that do one thing well, and using those progams in combination.
- betterunix 13y ago"What is it about "today's world" that makes software require a larger code base?" The fact that we are still not using the high-level languages we have available to us. Vast amounts of new C, C++, and Java code are written each year. We are solving bigger problems, but we are using languages that are still catching up to the state-of-the-art of the 1970s.
- dhimes 13y ago* Anyway, my point was more about the unix nature of building small programs, that do one thing well, and using those programs in combination.* That just uses different words to describe the same net result and the same net problem. You still have to find a way to make all of those pieces work together to do something complex.