No way. This was just another question. One programmer told me that
he
can roughly handle max 10 000 lines in C language. I was curious
about Python. I always hear that Python can be used on larger projects
than e.j. PERL because it is Object Oriented and cleanly designed.
What is a larger project? Mumbers revail more.
The problem is that some languages are much more verbose than others, thus a 100
line python program might require 2,000 lines of C or 700 lines of C++ (I'm just
making up numbers here). What then counts is the programmers ability to read the
source and summarise (oh, that's just creating back orders if we are out of
stock). The more verbose the language the more likely they will have a problem
comprehending the intent of the code. Imagine trying to comprehend a C program
against its assembly equivalent. C is easier to read than assembly and Python is
easier to read than C.
I suppose languages have a conciseness metric but I would not know how to
measure it. On the other hand APL is very short by just as hard to read.
Perl is used on some very large projects! The 75,000 lines I mentioned was Perl
and I would not count that as a large project.
This is probably team work. It's helpful for me to know figures. When
you start a project it is useful to know the limitations of a
language. Visual Basic is reported to fail on larger projects.
It was created by a team for sure but when an upgrade or fix is required then
only one programmer is looking at the whole of the code so they have to handle
the entire codebase. A well designed codebase / object hierarchy helps here.
As to Basic, the non VB sort, I have worked on financial systems that were
written in Vax Basic that were many 1,000s of lines long. The language is not
the problem. With VB the problem is that you never really got to work with the
code, the IDE was always in the way and the IDE only existed at the program
level and not the project.
rint "x+=",`i`