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snousleFor nerds of a certain age, this is an epic advertising fail.
At one time, IBM was famous among computer scientists for having paid their programmers by the number of lines of code that they produced. The tale may be apocryphal, but everyone remembers that it was as if "IBM was racing to build the world's heaviest airplane." For coders, less is more. Three million lines is a really truly very large system indeed.
So when they ask "what 3 million lines of code means to a piece of luggage?" The answer is obviously "we have no idea, because nobody understands it all!"
The ad even has a picture of an airplane! Sigh...
At one time, IBM was famous among computer scientists for having paid their programmers by the number of lines of code that they produced. The tale may be apocryphal, but everyone remembers that it was as if "IBM was racing to build the world's heaviest airplane." For coders, less is more. Three million lines is a really truly very large system indeed.
So when they ask "what 3 million lines of code means to a piece of luggage?" The answer is obviously "we have no idea, because nobody understands it all!"
The ad even has a picture of an airplane! Sigh...
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Date: 2010-12-05 06:04 am (UTC)In a different context, years ago a friend and I coined the term "gorilla code" to refer to 'brute force' coding methods and non-nested logic.