[Citizen Tom Paine]

I am an OLD computer user. Based on my experience, motivates me were the killer applications at the time. That is what moved me from the Apple II+ to the severely limited early PCs.

At this time and place, I see no killer applications on any platform. I am using Macs now because of the unsolved virus problems with MS et al.

Perhaps the next really killer application will be a combination of everything that the kids want and love.

A word in passing: I was told by knowledgeable people that when your code got around 90.000 to 100,000 lines that no one could keep track of it all (including all of the constants). I understand that MS is now pushing 500,000+ lines of code in their applications. This implies to me that no one knows what is happening in it.IMHO

[SauronOfMordor]

A word in passing: I was told by knowledgeable people that when your code got around 90.000 to 100,000 lines that no one could keep track of it all (including all of the constants). I understand that MS is now pushing 500,000+ lines of code in their applications. This implies to me that no one knows what is happening in it.IMHO

It depends. Spaghetti code hits that point way earlier. Systems that are built up from distinct modules, such that the parts only interact in a few well-defined interfaces can grow fairly large, because each part stays understandable, and the whole can be seen from a high level

Windows seems more like the the former than the latter. You have parts that send out filaments that entwine themselves around the testicles of other parts, etc. For example, Internet Explorer code should not have been embedded into the OS

There comes a point where you just have to scrap the old system and start over with a clean design. And that won't happen with Windows