Re: Larkin, Power BASIC cannot be THAT good:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:15:39 +0100, Nobody <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:43:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

For the project which is in front of me right now, out of 53 C
source files (not including headers), 2 are Unix-specific, 2 are
Windows-specific, the other 49 are portable. There are precisely 6
#if[def] directives in the entire code (mostly for platform-specific
headers), and no platform-specific macros.

53?! All the programs I've done in the last few years have each had
one source file. The only exception is embedded things that have one
uP code source file and one to four FPGA configuration files, which
all get built into one rom image file.

Another package which I work on has ~2500 C files, 60 C++ files, 160
Python files and 550 Makefiles, resulting in 350 executables and 50
libraries. And that's not all that large; the numbers are inflated by
virtue of it being composed of many small modules.

Okay, so this isn't "embedded" software, or even "system" software. But
the Linux kernel is both of those, and is far bigger (10,000 C files, 1000
assembler files, although not all files will be used on any particular
architecture).

Thank you, Lord, that I was born a humble circuit designer.

John


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