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kenjackson
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So are you saying we don't need emacs?
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ntoshev
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He is saying an Emacs in Java would be 10x as big.
kenjackson
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So he's saying that a Java version of Emacs would be 10 million lines of code long? That's ridiculously unlikely, unless given to monkeys to code -- and even then incompetent monkeys.
This is just wishful thinking.
andrewcooke
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Eclipse was 18 million lines in 2008 -
http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-ganymede-18-millio...
Obviously it's not a direct comparison, but...
gphil
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Wow, that is the biggest codebase I have ever heard of. Does anyone know of anything bigger than that?
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