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Old 05-18-2015, 11:04 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Why can't we edit Windows source code?
Because its a mess and we would feck it up more.
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According to Source lines of code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mac OSX 10.4 has 86 million lines of source code. Windows XP has 45 million.
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SLOC is particularly ineffective at comparing programs written in different languages unless adjustment factors are applied to normalize languages. Various computer languages balance brevity and clarity in different ways; as an extreme example, most assembly languages would require hundreds of lines of code to perform the same task as a few characters in APL.
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SLOC is particularly ineffective at comparing programs written in different languages unless adjustment factors are applied to normalize languages. Various computer languages balance brevity and clarity in different ways; as an extreme example, most assembly languages would require hundreds of lines of code to perform the same task as a few characters in APL.
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