@Jonathan_Blow Some fodder for your SW Simplification forum:
How many lines of code does it take to boot an OS? Kernel source not included.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/356216
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This is a really good presentation idea that Casey has made, because he can keep re-giving it every couple of years, and one of the slides is a graph of the name of the presentation over time.
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Or I could just rename it the f(year)=... million line problem and fill in the ... with whatever function fit I do that predicts the line count for the year x.
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It shall be known as Muratori's Law
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"Muratori's Second Law of Software Dynamics: Lines of Code Always Increases. It implies that the source tree will end in a 'loc death' in which no meaningful work can be done, and all the programming will end up being random changes that have no practical effect."
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Loc death: when fixing 1 bug causes the introduction of, on average, 1.001 new bugs.
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