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

• Ellipsis753 13y ago
  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.
  • jnbiche 13y ago
    Why would you think that? Most executable code includes lots of comments, unless it's been preprocessed. Still, I agree the figure is outrageous.
    • Ellipsis753 13y ago
      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.