From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 01:43:44 MDT
Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> There's a prediction kicking around somewhere that by 2010 there will be so
> much code in the world that we can no longer possibly maintain it by hand,
> the way that we do now. I wonder if that's some kind of negative
> singularity?
>
That's ok. Most of it is totally worthless and should not be
running much more than a few years. On average much of the code
I have encountered in running systems is bloated by at least
10x. Throw in another 2-10x for being written in some asinine
wordy language that gets in the way. I forget who said that no
program that has not been rewritten at least 3 times from
scratch is worth running. But there is a lot of truth to it.
- samantha
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