Length of Lisp programs

From: André Thieme (this.address.is.good.until.2004.feb.13_at_justmail.de)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:08:14 +0100

How long (measured in lines of code) is the longest CL program you know
of? I basically want to know for what projects CL could be the language
of choice. This if of pure theoretical interest for me as I don't plan
to start a ten million loc project any time soon ;)

In OCaml I know of two middle sized applications:
a compiler with 250k lines and a theorem prover with 300k lines.
In languages like Java or C++ some programs count millions of lines of
code (the Mozilla browser has around 30 millions). I don't know if this
is a coincident that these languages are all statically typed...

I know that Lisp programs tend to be in some cases _much_ smaller than a
C++ counterpart. Anyway, are there any Lisp programs beyond the 500k
lines mark?

Regards,
André

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