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    biggest program

    which is the biggest c++ program whose source code is available

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    Why?

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    How do you define "biggest"? Biggest distribution, largest executable size, largest source code or some other criteria?

    Also, do you mean ONE SINGLE executable, or a collection of executables/DLL's|so's?

    Bjarne Stroustrup has a list (some) of applications written in C++ here, some of which are open source:
    http://www.research.att.com/~bs/applications.html

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    Firefox is pretty big.
    So is Open Office.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Magos View Post
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    NO, the universe is written in LOLCODE.

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    OpenOffice seems to be alot bigger than Firefox, not that i have checked it...
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    Quote Originally Posted by abachler View Post
    NO, the universe is written in LOLCODE.
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    Gimp is mostly written in C. Eclipse is mostly written in Java.
    All the buzzt!
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    I remember reading somewhere that Linux version 2.4 contained about 2.4 million lines of code. (I think it's mostly C, with some C++, and some people don't consider an operating system a "program".)

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    The Gimp is written in C. So is Linux (except for some assembly files).
    As far as I know, OpenOffice is Java, hence the JRE installation when installing OpenOffice.

    I'm not sure about FireFox, it might be C++. What I'm definitely sure about is that Quake3 is written in C++ and it's sourcecode is available at idsoftware.com (so is the source for all other id software games prior to quake3!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saimadhav View Post
    which is the biggest c++ program whose source code is available
    I'm also wondering: Why? It's not like it'll make any sense.

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    There is absolutely no C++ in the Linux kernel. Linus Torvalds would have a fit. He really doesn't like C++. There's some assembly.

    FireFox is mostly C++, plus a lot of JavaScript. There's also some perl in the build system. NSPR, NSS and the SeaMonkey JS engine are written in C.

    OpenOffice.org is mostly C++ and can function without a JRE. However, some features are in Java, like the built-in DMBS.
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