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That's incoherent. If you accept the claims of > People regularly say they translated their system from language A to language B and got 10-100 times code-siz
by skew 14y ago
That's incoherent.
If you accept the claims of
> People regularly say they translated their system from language A to language B and got 10-100 times code-size reductions.
then it's clearly false at least for first systems that
> there is essential complexity in software, and it is the dominant factor.
- hxa7241 14y agoWell, it should really say something more like 'essential complexity in software development'. The size of the software does not simply, directly represent the effort -- making compacter code might take more effort, and it is only because of the extra work of design iteration that improvements were possible. But there are various things involved so I am certainly not sure.