Title: Size Is The Enemy
Author: Jeff Attwood
Description: Jeff Attwood critiques an article, written by Steve Yegge, about Code's Worst Enemy. Steve wrote a game, in Java, over the course of ten years. He has ended up with 500,000 lines of code and the realization that , 500K lines of code is impossible to maintain by yourself, and Java may not be the best language to have written it in. What is a genius coder to do? Rewrite the entire thing in Rhino, of course.
My Favorite Quote:
"...
- If you personally write 500,000 lines of code in any language, you are so totally screwed.
- If you personally rewrite 500,000 lines of static language
code into 190,000 lines of dynamic language code, you are still pretty
screwed. And you'll be out a year of your life, too."