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echo: rberrypi
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from: STEPHEN PELC
date: 2018-06-28 14:39:00
subject: Re: Forth

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:18:20 +1200,
nospam.Kees.van.Eeten@p4.f5003.n280.z2.binkp.net (Kees van Eeten)
wrote:

> SP> Writing readable code is something that has to be learned. I speak
> SP> as someone involved in the maintenance and development of a
> SP> Forth application of 1,400,000 lines of source code.
>
> You should have been fired, when the count reached 1000 lines.

Then the team should have been fired 20+ years ago. When I first met
this app 20 years ago, it was already over 500,000 lines.

On your thought basis, virtually every FOSS tool in the business,
including gcc should self-destruct immediately.

Stephen


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