On: Rhinos and Tigers

[jpeterson]

Can one person really produce so much text? Does he have a team of writers or what?

[xirium → jpeterson]

Possibly. In the article, he mentions that he has one million lines of Java in production.

[icey → jpeterson]

I wish there was someone around who has had a chance to look at some of his code. Something I've noticed from years of doing code reviews and consulting is that people who are that verbose in their writing tend to be very verbose in their coding. I wonder if Steve generates massive classes when they could be done much smaller.

Again, it's totally unfounded, I'm just speaking from anecdotal evidence.

[msg → icey]

He has actually talked about your question. Over the years he has come to believe that size is the enemy of code and verbosity is the portrait of n00b.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.htm...

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht...

Also, it's not exactly like he's verbose in his writing. He was verbose in his talking, which makes sense if you think about his forum.

[jauco → icey]

He's transcribing a speach. Speakings always more verbose than writing.

[icey → jauco]

Sure, but everything he writes is incredibly lengthy.

[andreyf → jpeterson]

Maybe he uses a fast keyboard? I've heard wonders about these:

http://www.datahand.com/products/proii.htm

[pchristensen → jpeterson]

Well, he said he types 120 wpm, he was transcribing a presentation he already gave, and it has been a month since he wrote anything. Not that hard.

[babo → jpeterson]

It's a transcript of an hour long talk, so it's not that much as that and worse to read.