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Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster by jsvaughan on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:05PM (#3740364)
Obviously lines of code is a poor metric, but wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code) would suggest it is not as complicated as:

Linux kernel 2.6.35 13.5 million lines of code

Windows Server 2003 50 MLOC

Mac OS X 10.4 86 MLOC

Debian 5.0 324 MLOC

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And alternatively:

"if you bought a premium-class automobile recently, it probably contains close to 100 million lines of software code":

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/this-car-r...

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Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster by JoachimSchipper on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:12PM (#3740414)
Yes, but this code is low-level, life-threatening on crash, hard real-time, etc.
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Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster by batista on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:23PM (#3740489)
Not really. Those counts include totally unrelated components (like drivers) which you can optionally turn off, and just forget about.

Whereas the total count for the jet code is (I presume) of highly relevant code all around. It's not like it has 100 video drivers code included, and support for 2000 network cards, or several filesystems.

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