Michael Sperber wrote:
>>>>>>"Felix" == Felix Winkelmann <xxxxxx@proxima-mt.de> writes:
>
>
> Felix> Come on, go ahead, give some details. Millions of lines, handwritten?
> Felix> Where?
>
> The "millions of lines" is from a thread on a different forum.

Yes, I've seen it, and I (partially) stand corrected, but we still don't
know how many of that code is hand-written Scheme.

>
> I'll point out that Scheme programs that do something that it takes
> millions of lines of Java or C++ typically don't have millions of
> lines.

No, that's cheating. As far as I can tell, we were quite explicitly
talking about "lines of Scheme code".

> I have programs on the order of 100000 lines of Scheme code under my
> personal maintenance.  I see no reason why that wouldn't scale to
> millions, if it came to that.
>

So do I, yet that's not the issue. Millions of lines is millions of lines.

Anyway, I'll leave it that.

cheers,
felix