Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniele Futtorovic Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories! Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 02:35:01 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <34va98-dgm.ln1@dagon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 00:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3L0fosuCYLsM9cW5CzHNyA"; logging-data="24743"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+q+vt7118+b1iSQEt+eh8w" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:mDSmFW3wi1NNbrfGkQ/AdUZ29js= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3631 On 06/05/2011 01:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro allegedly wrote: > I just looked at a =93non-tiny codebase=94, not written in Java=97the L= inux > kernel. I counted up about 13 million lines of C code, and it goes no m= ore > than 3 subdirectories deep. There is no hierarchical division along any= thing > resembling namespace lines. And this is widely regarded as one of the m= ost > productive and high-quality software projects in the world. > > I conclude from that that imposing a directory hierarchy along namespac= e > lines is not actually helpful for =93non-tiny codebases=94. Furthermore= , for > your typical, more modest-sized mobile-phone app, it=92s going to be do= wnright > counterproductive. Gosh, you're such a twat. --=20 DF. An escaped convict once said to me: "Alcatraz is the place to be"