# Norris Numbers

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## What Jamie wrote

Interesting observations on the size of a codebase and the difficulty for programmers to manage it.

> At DreamWorks we had 950 programs for animators to use, and a line count showed that the larger ones all hovered around 20,000 to 25,000 lines. Beyond that it was just too much effort to add features.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT42: Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/42/), Programming

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