[tt] a million lines of code

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:13:14AM -0600, Bryan Bishop wrote:

> DNA has the advantages of using various proteins to process the 
> instructions and do interesting management tasks, not all of which we 

Genome activity is a network, not a sequential process.

> know of yet or have decyphered. But there are a growing number of tools 
> for the processing of large volumes of code. There's the auto 

Yes, the amount of complete tools who produce large volumes of code
has increased indeed...

> documenters (which never match an expert at documentation), there are 
> even the compilers which export all of the information into object 
> code, but that's not exactly a design-useful tool. While the fantasy 
> for ages has been to get ai that can process the code in one big gulp, 

Would a trillion lines would be enough for an AI?

> perhaps the reality that will emerge will be various tools and agents 
> that can provide different explanations of the code to get a better 
> grip on it all, esp. with heavily modularized java environments.

Sorry, I don't see any silver bullet candidate. You need to get
the human out of the loop. Make it an automated process. That's
the only thing which will work.

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