Portable .NET Reaches A Quarter Million Lines

Pnet Guy writes: "Portable .NET is a component of the dotGNU meta project to provide a CLI (ECMA standard) platform for free software. The project true to its name runs on a variety of platform including Linux,Hurd and Cygwin GNU systems. To avoid any legal problems Pnet has decided to go the hard way and bootstrap our compiler off gcc. Unlike Mono which uses microsoft's runtime to run their compiler. Our premier developer Rhys Weatherly has contributed 254,423 lines written since Jan 1, 2001. Which amounts to about 5000 lines per week which is phenomenal for any programmer. He is dotGNU's one-man army. So join him in celebrating his quarter billion lines of his code." Update: 12/27 02:41 GMT by T : Note that as many readers have pointed out, that's just like the headline says -- a quarter million lines, rather than billion. Some related links to check out include the dotGNU home page, the Southern Storm Software (Rhys Weatherley's shop, with Portable .NET information), Mono's page and Pnet's CVS repository.

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.NET

[cavemanf16]

While .NET and this project are good explorations in new computer coding and interoperability, I still won't use either one. Hell, it's easy enough to get your own computer broken into, but it's only one computer with one set of a person's info in most cases. Why should I entrust info to one giant database of a whole bunch of users, be it free or not? That's about the most inviting target for anyone to crack into. Not only is it supposed to be difficult to get into, but once in, their is ALL KINDS of info to grab!

.NET and all alternatives to it is like putting a naked supermodel alone in a gym full of 16-18 year old boys and telling them not to touch! >:)

half a million lines of code...

[sfraggle]

After half a million lines of code in one year, they can now celebrate half a million hits in one minute!

Depends on point of view

[rhost89]

This reminds me of the old days and IBM's K-Line projects, More lines = more funding but it normaly went like this...

int
main
(
argv
,
*
argc
[
]
)
{
printf
(
"
test
"
)
;
return
(
0
)
}

what you get there is 3 lines of code, but you get paid or in this case credited for 23. Now if you got paid (or for that mater recieved recognition) by the line, which would you right??

NIST to rename "millions" unit to "mebibillions"

[Bowie J. Poag]

In a press release issued earlier today, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that they will be renaming the term "million" to "mebibillions". When asked what prompted the move, an NIST spokesman said, "Initially, it was due to the problem of accurately naming the number of lines of sourcecode some guy wrote for the benefit of RMS' ego. Its just plain silly how much this guy wrote." , later adding, "So, we came to a consensus within the organization that a revision to the basic units of measurement should be made, so it looks like we're busy so we don't lose our funding. In addition, we feel that marketing people should always determine standards, not the engineers and scientists who actually know what they're doing. Its just good sense." Beginning January 1st, the new "mebibillions" unit will take affect.

Mebibillions of people are expected to shake their heads in disbelief at the NIST's continuined stupidity.

:)
Cheers,

Great

[mESSDan]

While he has indeed been writing large amounts of code, and fine code it is, his little joke is that all of his comments are written in Engrish

copy/paste

[rogbas]

Our premier developer Rhys Weatherly has contributed 254,423 lines written since Jan 1, 2001. Which amounts to about 5000 lines per week which is phenomenal for any programmer.

It's amazing what a man can do with copy & paste...