most 50 KLOC projects were not written by one person, but rather by lots and lots of them. For example the scala compiler + standard library: find src -name "

most 50 KLOC projects were not written by one person, but rather by lots and lots of them. For example the scala compiler + standard library: find src -name "*.scala" | xargs cat | wc -l = 244,601 git log --format="%an" | sort | uniq | wc -l = 149