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echo: rberrypi
to: STEPHEN PELC
from: ROB MORLEY
date: 2018-06-28 16:59:00
subject: Re: Forth

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:39:04 GMT
stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) wrote:

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

> > 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.
>
How does expressing the opinion that Forth code should be kept small
and manageable mean that it applies to everything else as well?

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