I'm confused. Since when did bloat surpass elegance as a measure of
success in Perl programming?

- nick

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Nick Tonkin   {|8^)>


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:41:38PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:40:44 +0100, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> > > > perl: Any iussues with perl/modperl? Besides modperl I will be running a
> > > > perl application with a few hundred thousend lines of code...
> > >
> > > Wow. For reference last time I looked at slashcode it was about 25.000
> > > lines I think. I wonder what kind of application would require more than
> > > that amount of Perl code :-)
> > 
> > I'm sure someone else will post a bigger number, but my application (IOP
> > Electronic Journals) has 55000 lines of code (including the odd blank line
> > and comment, of course). And we're always adding new stuff, so it only ever
> > gets bigger.
> 
> Schoolmaster.net, 167,000 lines of Perl code, another 30,000 lines of C.
> 
> Rich.
> 
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