Thinking about it a bit more - BIG is probably a function of language. 20,000 lines is getting BIG for Perl, but is smallish for C++. Our main code base is about 1,000,000 lines of C++, written by 3 - 6 people over about 10 years. I'd consider that to be BIG, but it is still manageable and maintainable. I suspect a Perl project of that size would be getting to be something of a handfull!

Bigness could also be measured in terms of functionality provided. A Perl equivelent of the 1e6 line C++ program (presuming it were practical) may be half the number of lines of code, but I doubt it would be anywhere near as managable as the C++. Different rules apply as code gets larger so scaling a size/functionality ratio for Perl compared with other languages is unlikely to be meaningfull as projects get BIG.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^2: Samples of big projects done in Perl by GrandFather
in thread Samples of big projects done in Perl by techcode

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