Ha, surreal

Posted May 10, 2010 15:11 UTC (Mon) by Pc5Y9sbv (guest, #41328)
In reply to: Emacs 23.2 released by Cyberax
Parent article: Emacs 23.2 released

Suggesting that it is distortion to NOT scatter functionality over hundreds of files? What is distorted is Java's strange way of using files. I await the follow on language, where perhaps the file tree can represent the AST and the files each contain one terminal symbol!

Ha, surreal

Posted May 10, 2010 15:34 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

I have another project in C++. It's not quite as big, but it's over 1000 files.

However, I mostly see monster 10000-line files in projects developed in emacs/vim.

Ha, surreal

Posted May 10, 2010 16:03 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

With original vi I can understand it, because its support for displaying multiple files at once is nonexistent. With vim and (X)Emacs I cannot. I regularly make both sweeping and bitty changes to projects containing tens of thousands of files with XEmacs, without trouble.

emacs/vi encourages monster files?

Posted May 10, 2010 16:12 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

My current project (writing up class notes) is currently around 40 files and some 12,000 lines LaTeX + asymptote (average 300 lines/file) , last term's notes are 110 files and some 22,000 lines (average 200). All written in xemacs. My thesis (written in troff with vi, way back) should have similar statistics. But then I've seen monsters like a book in one file (18,200 lines LaTeX with embedded Python listings).

The tool used shouldn't influence the result (at least not too much).

Ha, surreal

Posted May 12, 2010 11:53 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Didn't DJB already invent this language for configuration of qmail et al? :)