I think the point is that you have complete non-trivial applications being
written in Perl.
Success is measured in application adoption, not in elegance. I've
worked many places that produced very elegant code, however all of those
places no longer exist. You need more than "cool" code to mark something
as a success.
Owen
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Nick Tonkin wrote:
> 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^)>
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> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > 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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