Largest program?

[OniAnubis]

So I wanted to know what is the largest program any of you have worked on and actually completed? also, how long did it take to complete?

[thumper]

The largest system I have worked on was 2 million lines of code and was a trading system at an investment bank.

I've not counted other projects I've worked on.

[Desi-Tek.com]

oh my godness 2million line http://www.desi-tek.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif

[Note360]

That is big. Debugging must have been a pain.

[thumper]

Yeah, it was a real pain in the ****.

When I started working on it it was already over ten years old. Started out as C, but moved to C++. That is not a good way to do things. Code that works perfectly well in C can then really bite you if you use C++, primarily exceptions.

I guess most of the time I end up working on codebases that fit more into the category of 30-100 kloc (thousand lines of code).

[thumper]

Also, code doesn't get completed - it gets released.

Most released code is never finished :-)

[Note360]

It scares me. 1mil lines. I don't think my brain could even handle that.

[scourge]

My most bloated project ever was a Visual Basic application consisting of about 100,000 lines of code. I was a complete beginner at the time and the quality of the code was awful. I think I could now squeeze the same project into 30,000 lines if I decided to rewrite it.