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From: mark@hermesa.uucp (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: OOP in the "real world"
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.080811.16348@hermesa.uucp>
Date: 15 Jun 91 08:08:11 GMT
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bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:


>So, can anyone point me to any articles, or even have any anecdotal
>evidence, on OO in large software sytems? Thanks you.

There have been a couple of OSes written in C++ -- one (Choices) was
billed as being 78000 lines in 1987.  I also exchanged email with someone
whose company had a 250K line C++ system -- I think it was a mail-handling
thing.  Can't remember who it was.

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