Is healthcare.gov really 500 million lines?

Re:Is healthcare.gov really 500 million lines? by dopamean on Monday October 21, 2013 @03:14PM (#6587582)

There's probably 490 million lines of comments explaining all the quid pro quos needed to get the thing built.

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Re:Is healthcare.gov really 500 million lines? by Ellipsis753 on Monday October 21, 2013 @03:16PM (#6587593)

The quote was "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code." So I would highly doubt that "software code" would also include comments.

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Re:Is healthcare.gov really 500 million lines? by jnbiche on Monday October 21, 2013 @03:22PM (#6587630)

Why would you think that? Most executable code includes lots of comments, unless it's been preprocessed.

Still, I agree the figure is outrageous.

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Re:Is healthcare.gov really 500 million lines? by Ellipsis753 on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @06:50PM (#6595531)

I don't usually count comments to as lines of code. I didn't realize that some people did. Perhaps I'm just unusual in how I count them. It seems there's some ambiguity however so it's very possible that they were counting comments after all.

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