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Let's say comments make up 10% of my lines, white space makes up 10% of my lines, and a single } makes up another 10% of my lines. That makes 7000 lines. Let's say every line is filled with 80 characters that I have typed (no auto indent). Let's assume there are 5 characters in the average word and I type at 80wpm.

With those paramaters it would take about 23hr to type. Luckily I have an IDE, I comment a lot, and I indent and make a lot of whitespace to separate ideas between lines.




If you work for 8 hours (28800 seconds) without any breaks, 10k lines comes out to one line every 2.88 seconds. I'll choose not to believe you.


Java bean IDE vomit-in-files?

Not my cup of tea, but sorta plausible.


That's not writing 10k lines of code. It's having an IDE generate 10k lines of code.


OK, I can see that by the numbers it is possible, if you have planned everything so well that you don't waste any time getting stuck or rewriting. While I do this for much smaller amounts of coder, 10k LOC is so much that I don't think I could possibly plan it out that well, and also keep it in my head. Personally I find that my plans fall apart once I actually start to write out the code and notice many things I forgot, and usually I find the code is much uglier than expected and I try to find better ways.


If your typing speed is the limiting factor in writing code...I really don't know what to think.


80 wpm and still a limiting factor in programming? That would be pure genius, I think...




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