On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:02:10PM +0000, Will Newton wrote: > On Saturday 21 Feb 2004 5:57 pm, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > I'm not personally aware of any projects over 200k lines and 10 > > full-time developers that aren't a total train wreck. Language doesn't > > matter. Letting a project get that large in the first place is a hefty > > hint that you've gone way off the rails, and it should probably be > > split up. (Unless you start stretching the definition of "project" to > > something like "Debian", which doesn't count) > > 200k lines of C is a small-medium size project. In Perl or Python or a similar > high level language I would consider it large. 10 people is not a large team > in any language. Welcome to commercial software development. In my observation, these kinds of projects are usually disasterous. It's been a long time since I saw some commercial software that didn't suck. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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