Measuring programming (books) progress by lines of code (lines of text) is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight
Just like with an airplane, if we add in the weight and what it's made of and used for all of the sudden it becomes a pretty interesting metric.
- Sintara is small (and arguably beautiful), a book on it should be small. Being small doesnot mean it shouldnot be called book.
- Wasn't our biggest gripe with J2ee monster was the enormous complexity, and to handle them the large books required. Wasn't that why rails Django were hailed as game changers? http://i44.tinypic.com/98uhs6.png
Smaller frameworks with smaller learning curve and books take that even further.