From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T17:54:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23161] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stephan K�mper wrote:

> Sean Russell wrote:
> > 
> > Apart from my dislike of Python syntax, I'd have no trouble accepting
> > maintenance of 100K+ lines of Ruby code, assuming the code was written by
> > someone sane; I'd prefer this to taking on, say, 100K+ lines of C code, or
> > even Java code.  Ruby is so orthogonally OO that I can't imagine that it
> > wouldn't be noticeable on a large scale.
> > 
> 
> I'd like to know how large the large projects are in Ruby (in LOC or
> whatever measure).
> Almost certainly  shorter than (functionally) comparable projects in C, C++,
> Java I'd guess...
> 
I can't compare to other languages but the ones of my projects I consider
"large" are in the 5K-10K LOC (comments included but I try to use Beck-
style intention revealing method names instead of extensive code comments
=> not much comments) range.

I'm sure there are much larger Ruby projects out there.

/Robert