Reading Jaz's journal

Did you ever have to turn 25,000 lines of deformed spaghetti hack into beautiful, clean and safe code? I guess some of you have been there.

I spent the last few days doing that and nothing else. I don't particularely like the project and my appetite for coding has all but died in me. If I wasn't so far behind on the release schedule, I would just throw it all in the corner and leave it there for a decade.

I'm so fed up with it.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Did you ever have to turn 25,000 lines of deformed spaghetti hack into beautiful, clean and safe code? I guess some of you have been there.

I've never actually been there. Well not with that many lines of code. I find myself disliking projects that get more than 10,000 or so lines. Maybe its my small brain and lack of intelligence to sort it all out. I get very confused with more than 10,000 lines.

Maybe I'm not the only one? I hope there are others that have the same sort of problem. This way I can think I'm more normal. Haha!

My record was actually a piece of basic code, which had over 30.000 lines of code - i released it way back in 1997 as public domain, for non-commercial/educational (ab)use only. like in the famous sentence "learn from the code", this ugly horrifying hell-spawn of a source code shows you, how NOT to code.

gb.

Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign for a diseased mind!