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
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
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