"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 availa

"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.