Comment Re:reverence and awe (Score 1) 742
Shrug. I was put in charge of a project with 4 million lines of source my second year out of school. You carefully analyze the code paths that you need to work on at any given point in time, you write good thorough tests, you make your changes, you re-run your tests, and fix any regressions. The killer isn't the number of lines of source, its the interdependency between different modules (and the Linux kernel really doesn't have the best reputation in that department, though I don't know how much of its bad rap is deserved).