From:	AndrewJ <luminous-is AT REMOVE DOT home DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Watcom C++ opened?
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>> >Oh, and GNUpro is about *ten* million lines of code.
>> 
>> "Mine's bigger than yours".  Childish.
>
>Establishing a fact is *never* childish, especially in this world of
>ours, where so many myths are taken as facts.
>
>The "mine's bigger" part is _your_ interpretation, DJ didn't say that.

I was thinking more in terms of two folks, both advocating opposing products.
But I am curious, how is asserting that a product has /more/ lines of code
making a case for it?  I thought the goal of any software was to keep it as
tight and clean as possible?

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