Re: [fonc] goals

2010-07-13 Thread Julian Leviston
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

Re: [fonc] goals

2010-07-13 Thread BGB
yes. there is much emphasis on people understanding an entire system, whereas often a programmer does not need to have such comprehensive understanding. in a large codebase, for example, parts of the project will come into view as one works on them, and when one moves elsewhere they may pass

Re: [fonc] goals

2010-07-13 Thread Julian Leviston
On 14/07/2010, at 1:55 PM, BGB wrote: yes. there is much emphasis on people understanding an entire system, whereas often a programmer does not need to have such comprehensive understanding. in a large codebase, for example, parts of the project will come into view as one works on