On 13/07/2010, at 10:29 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > The lack of scalability that I was talking about is where a system > becomes too much for any person to understand. Though lines of code is > very simplistic, Alan has compared code sizes of various projects with > different kinds of books in a few of his talks. There are texts that > almost anybody can read and there are others that nobody ever will. > Certainly you can't understand something you have not read. So that is > one bottleneck. I bet there are others - even in a system that is > reasonably short there might be too many combinations of elements to > understand: > > http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html > > -- Jecel
This is extremely interesting to me, because I could ask you very simply: Do you understand the basic relationship between planets? Also... of how animal (including our) bodies inter-relate? Also... of how biological cells interact with each other? Do you see what my point is? Perhaps if one introduces scale properly, there is no limit to what one can understand. Julian.
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