From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2005-09-23T04:36:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Large Ruby Apps ?

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Isaac,
>
> IG> The OP was unhelpfully vague about what he considered to be large
> IG> programs but imo 25,000 lines of java equivalent doesn't seem at all
> IG> large.
>
> IG> The OP also mentioned "programming in the large" which perhaps implies
> IG> co-ordinating multi-person development.
>
>
> I agree, fore me programming in the large begins with 250.000 lines of
> code and multiple persons is normally necessary to get this.
>
> So from the current situation i would say there is no large ruby app.
> The focus is also on application here, and not on large on a script collection
> of 200000 lines that does not more then bundle unrelated test cases.
> This isn't programming in the large, even if it has a lot of LOC's
> (i'm talking about some ruby code that exist at BMW Munich).
>
>
>
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And let's quickly state that doesn't mean there are no large
applications written in dynamically type checked languages :-)

There are Smalltalk applications with (high) tens-of-thousands of
classes.

There are Erlang applications with ~ 1 million LOCs Erlang
"Four-fold Increase in Productivity and Quality"
http://www.erlang.se/publications/Ulf_Wiger.pdf