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    peterchen
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    What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


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      What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


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      Marc Clifton
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      peterchen wrote:

      one of many tools to count them[^]

      Why a program like that even needs an installer is beyond me. And amazaingly, lines of code isn't one of the numbers reported! Let's see: Directory File Count File Size K-LOC Rating Average K-LOC WTF is this lameass utility you're linking too? Marc

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        peterchen wrote:

        one of many tools to count them[^]

        Why a program like that even needs an installer is beyond me. And amazaingly, lines of code isn't one of the numbers reported! Let's see: Directory File Count File Size K-LOC Rating Average K-LOC WTF is this lameass utility you're linking too? Marc

        Thyme In The Country

        People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
        There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
        People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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        David Stone
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        Marc Clifton wrote:

        WTF is this lameass utility you're linking too?

        Tell us how you really feel, Marc. :rolleyes:

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          What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


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          Gary R Wheeler
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          The only project I've had in the last 20 years where 'lines-of-code' was a meaningful measure of the size of the project was an OS/2 device driver I wrote. It was over 18,000 lines of Intel assembly language. You can stop throwing up now. I have.


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            What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


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            code frog 0
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            Sorry man I can only count to 20.:laugh:

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              peterchen wrote:

              one of many tools to count them[^]

              Why a program like that even needs an installer is beyond me. And amazaingly, lines of code isn't one of the numbers reported! Let's see: Directory File Count File Size K-LOC Rating Average K-LOC WTF is this lameass utility you're linking too? Marc

              Thyme In The Country

              People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
              There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
              People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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              peterchen
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              K-LOC = 1000 Lines of code :rolleyes:


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                What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


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                The app i'm currently involved with is roughly 620K, plus a few thousand lines of script and markup. And probably that much again in various plugins. I'm only concerned with about half of all that though, so no worries. [Edit: here's the utility i used to count 'em a few months back: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/LineCounterAddin.asp ]

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                  Sorry man I can only count to 20.:laugh:

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                  21:-O


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                    What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


                    Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Velopers, Develprs, Developers!
                    We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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                    PIEBALDconsult
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                    peterchen wrote:

                    All lines (blank, comment, curlies).

                    Ah, so the number of newlines? Have you seen my code? I've had at least one person on here ask if I was trying to drive people blind. The more newlines the better I say.

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                      What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


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                      I had over a 1,600,000 lines in: (Are you ready?) C++ 6.0 SAP R/3 VB 6.0 PERL and Linux Shell Script Took almost 4 years to write it. It ran globally on Windows NT 4.0 MTS servers, HPUX, Oracle, Sybase and SAP R/3. It was a good experience but the VB 6.0 part took years off my life I got so tired of saying, "What do you mean you cannot do that in VB?" That would have been my on my head stone for sure had I died at all during that time. I finally had to get in touch personally and work directly with Matthew Curland the dude who wrote intellisense for the VS 6.0 IDE and the author of "Power VB Advanced Techniques for Everyday Users". He showed me how to inject assembly into VB and I was off and to the races. I had one VB App running totally Free-Threading flawlessly. Took the application run-time down from 48 hours to just a little over 1 hour. Curland is a stud!

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                        Sorry man I can only count to 20.:laugh:

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                        And how often can you count to 20?


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                          The only project I've had in the last 20 years where 'lines-of-code' was a meaningful measure of the size of the project was an OS/2 device driver I wrote. It was over 18,000 lines of Intel assembly language. You can stop throwing up now. I have.


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                          Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                          It was over 18,000 lines of Intel assembly language.

                          Wow dude...... i am like.... speechless :wtf: what did this device driver do... contact aliens


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                            What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


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                            I don't worry about LOC, but do look out of curiosity. :rolleyes: Project Line Counter [^]


                            I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                              I don't worry about LOC, but do look out of curiosity. :rolleyes: Project Line Counter [^]


                              I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                              soooo... how much? :cool:


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                                soooo... how much? :cool:


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                                5 :) I don't remember for sure 20k+ :~. I haven't touched the source in a year now. Programming has never been part of my primary job responsibilities


                                I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                                  I had over a 1,600,000 lines in: (Are you ready?) C++ 6.0 SAP R/3 VB 6.0 PERL and Linux Shell Script Took almost 4 years to write it. It ran globally on Windows NT 4.0 MTS servers, HPUX, Oracle, Sybase and SAP R/3. It was a good experience but the VB 6.0 part took years off my life I got so tired of saying, "What do you mean you cannot do that in VB?" That would have been my on my head stone for sure had I died at all during that time. I finally had to get in touch personally and work directly with Matthew Curland the dude who wrote intellisense for the VS 6.0 IDE and the author of "Power VB Advanced Techniques for Everyday Users". He showed me how to inject assembly into VB and I was off and to the races. I had one VB App running totally Free-Threading flawlessly. Took the application run-time down from 48 hours to just a little over 1 hour. Curland is a stud!

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                                  code-frog wrote:

                                  over a 1,600,000 ... almost 4 years to write it.

                                  :omg: Where you the only one working on that?


                                  I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

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                                    What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


                                    Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Velopers, Develprs, Developers!
                                    We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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                                    Well, I don't know the linecount on microsoft biztalk projects, as MS only provides me with graphical stuff for that. But my largest project for school was an FTP client for IPv6, it contained about 30k lines of code.

                                    WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "You can always try to smash it with a wrench to fix that. It might actually work" - WillemM

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                                      What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


                                      Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Velopers, Develprs, Developers!
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                                      Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                      About 1.5 million lines. Scarily, it was an MFC project. :eek: Our current project (Visual Lint) currently weighs in at a total of 94,963 lines - and there's not a line of MFC in there. :)

                                      Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

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                                        21:-O


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                                        Pardon?:rolleyes:

                                        The tigress is here :-D

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                                          What's the line count of the biggest project you ever worked on? All lines (blank, comment, curlies). I'm asking because Code Complete charts usually end of at 512K, which seems a bit low for this book. one of many tools to count them, reporting KLOC = 1000 lines of code[^] [edit] I don't need you to agree that lines of code is a measure for anything else but lines of code [/edit] -- modified at 19:14 Sunday 21st January, 2007


                                          Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Velopers, Develprs, Developers!
                                          We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
                                          Linkify!|Fold With Us!

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                                          Mine was an estate planning program that was just over 1.1 million lines of code when I left the company, and they were only about half done with it.

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