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"According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code." I call bullshit. Facebook is 62 million KLOC on the main site, e

"According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code." I call bullshit. Facebook is 62 million KLOC on the main site, excluding the backend. And I'll argue that Facebook is one of the most complicated sites out there, feature-wise. I wonder if this is actually combining all 50 states' health exchanges (and their third-party insurance API connectors), which MIGHT make sense, given an average of 10 million lines per state site.

rbritton 13y ago
It's probably combining the lines of generated HTML of every possible page permutation of the site.
- taftster 13y ago
  I know you're joking - but seriously, I think this is it. I don't think it's "page permutation", but probably more like the number of page template lines of code. i.e. all the HTML templates + the embedded jsp/php/asp/whateverp embedded. Lots of people (technical management or marketers) likely think of HTML as "code" and thus it's included in the count. I also think that the 500mm lines of code was likely floated to sound impressive - turns out, of course, this shows how messed up this project really is.
jamesrom 13y ago
62 million KLOC = 62,000 million lines of code. I'm calling bullshit on that.
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- jpatokal 13y ago
  I presume they meant 62 MLOC.
nether 13y ago
62e9 LoC?
dragonwriter 13y ago
> Facebook is 62 million KLOC on the main site, excluding the backend. And I'll argue that Facebook is one of the most complicated sites out there, feature-wise. Assuming you mean 62 MLOC, I have no problem believing that the backend implementing federally-operated healthcare exchanges for the 27 states that didn't set up their own state-level exchanges is on the order of 10 times as much code as Facebook has when you exclude Facebook's backend. > I wonder if this is actually combining all 50 states' health exchanges (and their third-party insurance API connectors), which MIGHT make sense, given an average of 10 million lines per state site. The federally-operated exchanges at issue are "only" for 27 states; the remaining states operate their own exchanges. But, yes, obviously any count of the LOC of the federal backend is going to include the exchanges -- that's what the backend is.

rbritton 13y ago

It's probably combining the lines of generated HTML of every possible page permutation of the site.

taftster 13y ago
I know you're joking - but seriously, I think this is it. I don't think it's "page permutation", but probably more like the number of page template lines of code. i.e. all the HTML templates + the embedded jsp/php/asp/whateverp embedded. Lots of people (technical management or marketers) likely think of HTML as "code" and thus it's included in the count. I also think that the 500mm lines of code was likely floated to sound impressive - turns out, of course, this shows how messed up this project really is.

jamesrom 13y ago

62 million KLOC = 62,000 million lines of code. I'm calling bullshit on that.

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jpatokal 13y ago
I presume they meant 62 MLOC.

nether 13y ago

62e9 LoC?

dragonwriter 13y ago

> Facebook is 62 million KLOC on the main site, excluding the backend. And I'll argue that Facebook is one of the most complicated sites out there, feature-wise. Assuming you mean 62 MLOC, I have no problem believing that the backend implementing federally-operated healthcare exchanges for the 27 states that didn't set up their own state-level exchanges is on the order of 10 times as much code as Facebook has when you exclude Facebook's backend. > I wonder if this is actually combining all 50 states' health exchanges (and their third-party insurance API connectors), which MIGHT make sense, given an average of 10 million lines per state site. The federally-operated exchanges at issue are "only" for 27 states; the remaining states operate their own exchanges. But, yes, obviously any count of the LOC of the federal backend is going to include the exchanges -- that's what the backend is.