On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:59:19 +0100, Rob Morley 
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?

It doesn't, but the original number (1000) was ridiculous and
treated as such.

IMHO all code should be kept as small as possible and manageable.
What's wrong with that?

Stephen

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