Comments on Stevey’s Blog Rants: Code’s Worst Enemy

• Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy
• the worst thing that can happen to a code base is size.
  

  I agree that code size or bloat is an issue, but what is being discussed is really compression. Think of a picture or a movie: Each as some discrete values that are displayed. You could create a file for each for each describing all attributes of each attribute. This…

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  the worst thing that can happen to a code base is size.

  ttle rant to convince anyone to share my minority opinion about code base size. I know a that few key folks

  Martin Fowler

  Lines of Code - Long read but well thought out…

  And I worked at Amazon for seven years; they have well over a hundred million lines of code in various languages, and “complexity” is frequently cited internally as their worst technical problem.
  You have to cross-train to be a decent athlete these days.

  Large code bases are bad, Jave lends to large code bases. Interesting thoughts.

  At least I enjoy his posts.

  Perhaps it is a sign why his code base is humongous: overemphasized, redundant statements. Software engineering is not just blindly writing code until the cows come home. There is a lot more to it than 7 years of pure coding and no design.

  This is a great example of what he alludes to as the straight-jacket that languages like C# / Java put you in.

  I’m going to risk downvotes by criticising Java. I earn money programming in Java, Perl and LISP, in increasing order of fun.

  Well, I’m not going to give you hundreds, but I’ll give you a few.

  Wyvern