Wasted mid-life.

About three years ago, I decided I wasn't happy with the kind of support Visual SourceSafe was giving me, so I sat down, and started writing my own source code control system from scratch. I downloaded all the relevant white papers and Ph.D thesis' available on the topic, and using Access (2003 mind you) and a mix of IronPython and COmega, I started my coding manifesto.

Well, after reading this article from Buck Hodges on Source Control support within VSTS, I'm feeling a little vulnerable. This article is particularly great, as it discusses the topic of shelving, which is something that has got a lot of people (well, just me really) confused.

Jeez, I don't know what I'm going to do with the 140 million lines of managed .NET and un-managed ASM code I've written over the past three years...anyone interested in a great CRM solution???

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2005
  what! No VB6! I find it hard to believe there's no VB code in those 140 million lines of code!

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2005
  Well, not exactly. I've implemented some of the functionality in VB6 COM dll's, and thunk those through my ASM libraries, written in A86.NET...suuuper :)

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2005
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• Anonymous
  March 29, 2005
  LOL, Sushant, don't feel bad, alot of those 140 million lines are goto statements!

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2005
  Umm guys... 140 million would be 1 LOC per second for about five years straight. I think he's exaggerating juuust a little bit.

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2005
  LOL, well, a good portion of that code was generated from a sophisticated set of VBA macros that randomly extracted code snippets from an Excel spreadsheet of my favorite, inert functions :)

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2005
  I have a similar setup, but I store all my functions as "word art" in powerpoint slides.
  
  Seriously though, you got me, I bought it. [Slaps forehead] :)

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