Lines of code in windows 2000

Edit Profile. Sign Out View Profile. Over 2 million developers have joined DZone. Counting Lines of Code on Windows. Like 1. Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Join For Free. Furthermore, skilled developers know that the less code you write, the fewer bugs you've created-- so they naturally distrust any productivity metric that weights absolute lines of code. And does code generation count? Even with all its problems, the LOC metric is still where you should start, according to McConnell: My personal conclusion about using lines of code for software estimation is similar to Winston Churchill's conclusion about democracy: The LOC measure is a terrible way to measure software size, except that all the other ways to measure size are worse.

For most organizations, despite its problems, the LOC measure is the workhorse technique for measuring size of past projects and for creating early-in-the-project estimates of new projects. The LOC measure is the lingua franca of software estimation, and it is normally a good place to start, as long as you keep its limitations in mind. Your environment might be different enough from the common programming environments that lines of code are not highly correlated with project size.

If that's true, find something that is more proportional to effort, count that, and base your size estimates on that instead. Try to find something that's easy to count, highly correlated with effort, and meaningful for use across multiple projects. Actually I think that this is even going to be of benefit because of the much larger peer review.

Unless MS did a very sloppy job and has several systematic security holes, which they managed to keep secret sofar, security will not be compromised.

The actual impact is going to happen for Linux. This is a true God send for all of those that reverse engineer interfaces and protocols relating to MS kernel functions. The file listing linked above appears to be missing those files. There doesn't appear to be any NTFS driver either. If that file is correct it's certainly incomplete.

If it's real, Microsoft's lawyers will have far better targets than journalists who presumably aren't redistributing it. Still, I gotta say LOL. Nice hack That article is 4 years old. It's not even close to a godsend. It's of no utility to them whatsoever. Actually, no, it does not. Freedom of the press and all. We've been through this more than once, actually. Sure it is. This is a true God send for all of those that reverse engineer interfaces and protocols relating to MS kernel functions Not really--the entire point of reverse engineering something is that you can't see the original implementation of interfaces and protocols.

Since the Windows source code is protected under IP laws, anyone who wanted to make a legitimate reverse-engeering attempt on some Microsoft system would have to be sure he never saw something like this.

Now, for little home projects, sure it's great to play with the real code, but if you're writing some code for a real system say, Samba Domain Controller functionality , you couldn't ever look at code like this. Having read that BBC article, it appears that you have either a very confused idea of a "proper Hacker", or a rather odd sense of sarcasm.

To do what? Other than not look at it , that is. Other than not look at it, that is. You have no imagination! Think: a good overview of the source code could reveal some areas where Linux is clearly superior. Of course, you could never admit the source of your comparison, but it'd be funny anyhow. I think PeterB's point is that if you're reverse engineering the code is worthless to you becuse you can't look at it.

In fact, the code becomes a bit of a liability, IMO. Anyway, if you're NOT reverse engineering, then sure, you can ridicule it. Does anyone see a weird connection to the movie Antitrust here?

Maybe I'm missing something here, but two things immediately spring to mind about this 'article': 1. People seem all up at arms about old MS source code being released so that the 'Bad People' can write exploits for it