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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by 4ad on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:54PM (#10229789)
I agree. The corporate policy is to not disclose that number, so all that the parent comment translates to is an appeal to authority. "You're wrong because I work for Microsoft and I know better!".

But we're not told what the correct number is, and we have no way of assessing the validity of the claim anyway, so the whole discussion is completely vacuous.

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by rndn on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:47PM (#10230760)
I would agree in the sense that LOC isn't an informative metric at all since there is surely a lot of auto-generated and copy & paste code in there, likely superlineraly more than a medium sized software project. It doesn't matter whether it's off by some orders of magnitude as it's beyond imagination and comparison anyway.
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