14000 lines in one source

[threaded]

I tend to throw the comments away as they are nearly always wrong.

[MrsGoof]

nearly always wrong.

so there is a glimmer of home they are correct

[privateeye]

What does this source do exactly, that requires all those lines?

Sounds very complicated.

its the EDS "Hello World" program

[MrsGoof]

its the EDS "Hello World" program

I'm glad to see that you recognise your own code

[Tex]

b) Where is Tex when you want to blame his family

Yeeh-hah, pardner. Jus' you let me round up them injuns!

[AtW]

Just checked and I've got 9900 lines in one source file - its a single class and I already removed a few thousand lines into separate classes.

[PerlOfWisdom]

Yeeh-hah, pardner. Jus' you let me round up them injuns!

Make sure you do the needful. Thrice if necessary.

[MrsGoof]

You'd had better put that code abck if you want to play with the BIG BOYS

[AtW]

You'd had better put that code abck if you want to play with the BIG BOYS

Would it make you happy if I use "partial" classes feature of .NET 2.0 and split that source file into X files with Y lines each? Would this suddenly increase value of the code that right now nobody apart from me deals with? Do you really think that the amount of effort it takes to make code look nice (I actually use tabs and comments these days) is a lot less than actually devising and debugging fairly complex algorithms?

[Spacecadet]

Thats got to be the worst thing about IT... specifications that only exist in someones head. As soon as they are gone, so is any simple way of getting information about that system.

On the contract I'm on now, the permies (and in fact the other contractor working there) seem to think that i'm just there to write documentation for stuff, when in fact i've been brought in to write a change management system. I'm just doing the right thing and speccing the thing up first.

And don't get me started on commenting. Its always added as an after thought when the comments should be the first lines written. Its a lot easier to write code if you go through a rough plan for that block with comments and then work back writing the code under the appropriate comments. Saves you writing tulipe code that you have to redo