> 3.1.1.6 Maturity of Code
> The Linux code was created in 1991, and in 1998 it comprised 1.5 million lines
> of code. Windows 2000 has over 38 million lines of code. Frederick Brooks
> claims that "complexity is a function of the square of the number of lines of
> code" and, thus, Windows 2000 contains much more complexity than does Linux."
>
>
> Counting lines of code in Linux is a bit tricky, but to compare properly with
> Windows you really ought count one of the major GUIs.
Actually, no, since the GUI hasn't been integrated _into_ the
OS itself. It's that lack of containment that weakens (and
"complexifies", to misuse the English language) W2K vis a vis
Linux.
Perhaps the various libraries should be factored in, though,
since I'd suspect that system-oriented DLLs would be for the
W2K case.
What weakens W2K through complexity is the very integration
that M$ has been pushing in an effort to undermine other
authors of Windoze-riding software. It's amazing any companies
write code for Windoze anymore considering how M$ looks at
their code, integrates "equivalent" (yeah, right) functionality
into the OS, and puts 'em out of business.
Hmmmm... ...maybe that was the _real_ cause of the
DOT.COM transition to DOT.BOMB...
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