[LINK] New Ford GT employs 10 million lines of code ‘

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm,

Every new line of code can represent another possible point of failure.

And in the good old days all we had to worry about was failure in a car part. And one of the reasons cars are impossible to DIY service nowadays is the need for plugging it into the million dollar diagnostic machine that the companies ration out to 'approved servicers’ - with their 'charge-like-a-wounded-bull’ service costs.

Their comparison with the F22 Raptor was also instructive. A few years back a squadron of those suckers almost shut down when they crossed the International Date Line in a flight across the Pacific to Japan. A 'bug in the code' was blamed.

Microsoft also used to boast about the number of lines of code in each variant of Windows it released (XP - 12 million lines, Windows 7 - 50 million lines etc. etc.) until they decided that quality control and security were big concerns a few years back. Now code quality is mentioned over quantity.

Just my 2 cents worth …
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> On 15 May 2015, at 12:31 am, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On 14-May-15 1:58 PM, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>> http://www.msn.com/en-au/motoring/reviews/new-ford-gt-operating-system-has-more-lines-of-code-than-a-boeing-787-dreamliner/
> 
> Pity the old Top Gear crew aren't around to give their opinion of this car.
> 
> Sounds to me they write their code like they build their cars. Big, 
> bloated and they fall off the road trying to go fast round corners.
> 
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> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
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