[Vince Ferrer]

I work in IT and I find that 500 million lines of code factoid to be hard to believe. Even if this includes all Java, CSS, XSDs, XML, Javascript, and all generated code by any tool, it still seems high. If they really have that much code, that in itself is a problem, because good practices dictate reusing code whenever possible. Web languages don’t follow that ethic very well as compared to object oriented languages, which are designed to foster code reuse, but still, that’s way too much code.

[RetiredTexasVet]

At close to a trillion dollars when the whole cost it totaled up, the “crony capitalist campaign donors” were probably paid handsomely by the LINE of code generated. Built in was a MASSIVE continuing maintenance profit center.

[SpaceBar]

I work in IT and I find that 500 million lines of code factoid to be hard to believe.

I absolutely agree. I wrote a large project by myself by hand. A multithreaded digital communication program of sorts which contains an entire DSP processing engine under the hood, various transforms, filters, dozens of protocols, some NASA linear codes and related encoders/decoders all hand written from scratch, user preferences, configuration menus, and a full featured gui to make it look nice and hide the underlying complexity. It took three years to write and I still debug and improve it, and it weighs in at just under 28,000 lines of C. 500 million lines of code to deploy an online shopping experience for insurance policies?... yeah right.

[ully2]

I totally agree. Todays coders are rather ineffient but it could be a tenth of that. And all the problems are not the web site but the crummy systems it has to access for the data.