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end
end

Kind Regards

If you split projects up according to cliques you’ll probably find it difficult to pass 50kloc.

Thank you,

if (A && B) { ... }

would have 3 TP (use if (1), get A (1) and B (1) right)

persons.filter ( _.age > 10)

would perhaps have 2 TP (use filter and get expression right)

while

for (Person person: persons) {
    if (person.getAge() > 10) {
       filtered.add( person );
    }
}

don’t know, perhaps 1 for the loop, 2 for the if and expression, 1 for the adding, makes 4 TP.

A little bit like McCabe

Do you have a reference how to compute these? ^^

There were much less libraries than today.

50K lines in python in the 90s — I’d assume that you didn’t use a lot of libraries ? These days if one writes java code, given the frameworks and libraries, there is little java code that you yourself have to write — atleast, that is the case in 80% of the projects.

So, I’d say that 50K lines of your python code would have a good amount of infrastructure code. So, that would mean NOT MORE than 150K lines of java code today. Again depends on the shop and what frameworks and libraries and maturity of teams/developers used.

I worked on a banking application with about a 250K lines of JAVA CODE with about 70-100 libraries. Although 20% of the application code could have been reduced by refactoring and reworking, I would still call that a LARGE project. Whether it is VERY LARGE, I am not sure BUT I’m almost sure none of us could grasp the entire codebase at any point of time.

I’m interested, as you, to find out other’s opinions.

BR,
~A

So 50k of Python code are at most corresponding to 250k of Java code, which is not a very large project.

[*] comparing e.g. list comprehensions in Python or closures in Ruby with Google Collections examples. But I would be very interested in a comparison of a LOC factor of Python, Ruby, Scala and Java.