On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 21:33, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:21 PM, James Keats <james.w.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> And once you encounter the >> reality and frustration infamously characterized by likening the >> managing of lispers to the herding of cats then you begin to admire >> languages like python and java and see what they got right in imposing >> restrictions. > > I've yet to see any evidence anecdotal or otherwise that managing a team of > good Lisp programmers is any more difficult than managing good programmers > in any other language. Links? > >> >> A very recent quote by Abelson is relevant: >> "One of the things I’m learning here (Google) is the experience of >> working on these enormous programs. I just never experienced that >> before. Previously a large program to me was a hundred pages or >> something. Now that’s a tiny, little thing." > > One of the most popular text editors to this day is Emacs. It's near 3 > million lines of Lisp. > David
It is? Looks like about 1.4M lines of Lisp and less than 0.4 M lines of C. [bsmith@pepper:~/w/emacs] $ for x in h c el ; do printf ".%-2s: %7d lines in %5d files\n" $x $(find * -name "*.$x" | xargs cat | wc -l) $(find * -name "*.$x" | wc -l) ; done .h : 37093 lines in 165 files .c : 337489 lines in 199 files .el: 1412477 lines in 1551 files Not that 1.4M isn't large, but it's not 3M. // Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
