>> legacy code that has been gradually added to since the 1980s > 20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much. It's not "20k lines of code" but "n

>> legacy code that has been gradually added to since the 1980s > 20,000 lines of code really doesn't seem like that much. It's not "20k lines of code" but "n lines of code that grew organically over decades to 20k lines" - with the help of probably way more than 100 people who all are not trained as developers. I think it's a safe bet to say the current state only has a faint memory of being a consistent code base.