On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
André Pang wrote:On Apr 23, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:My rules for scripting style tasks are something along the lines of: - Less than 20 lines, bash is ok. - Less than 100 lines, python, maybe. - Otherwise Ocaml or Haskell.- More than 1,000,000 lines, C++.Are you kidding? AFAIAC, C and C++ are for low level code or tasks which are highly performance critical. Wherever that is not the case they are simply not worth the bother.
It was more of a play on two things. First, my personal opinion is that if you have a million lines of _anything_, that's pretty insane. Break it up into completely separate programs that are independent of each other, even if you present it as a single application to the user. Second, if it is a million lines of code, the monstrosity tends to be written in C++ (or Java). I doubt you'd ever see a Haskell programmer write a single program that's a million lines of code.
And for everything between 20-100 lines, there's always zsh ;).
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