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how many lines of code can civilization support?

Is there any programming language theory that considers absolute upper bounds on how many lines of code (or bytes or whatever) a civilization can actively maintain (as a function of population size)?

Are such upper bounds low enough that the limit should inform programming language design?

By Thomas Lord at 2015-03-21 01:51 | LtU Forum | 303 comments | other blogs | 54136 reads