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#618854 3-May-2012 13:20

reven:

yeah but surely that 220 billion lines of code isnt unique, some traffic light systems will be the same code, same with shipping etc. i doubt its all unique

I just see it as a bit different - copies in caches\proxies\etc versus explicity reusing lines of code from one progam to another.

I was also curious how many lines of Javascript might be out there... one interesting read is the following from 2008, which just gives you an idea of the scale of the web:

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.nz/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html

1 trillion web pages in 2008 (and that included some method of discarding duplicates) if even a fraction of them include javascript... well I'm guessing there're a lot of lines of Javascript out there.

Ulimately though, LoC is a fairly meaningless metric and this is drifting way off topic so I'll leave it there :)

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#619292 4-May-2012 09:20

freitasm: There are still more lines of Cobol code around the world than anything else.

I'd be willing to bet there are more lines of VBA (behind Word and Excel documents) than anything else.

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#619444 4-May-2012 12:31

This makes me think,

How much is there in the way of

10 input $name
20 echo "hello $name"
30 goto 10

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#619511 4-May-2012 13:53

raytaylor: This makes me think,

How much is there in the way of

10 input $name
20 echo "hello $name"
30 goto 10

10 input name$
20 print "hello "; name$
30 goto 10

There, fixed it for you.

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#619746 4-May-2012 19:00

freitasm:
raytaylor: This makes me think,

How much is there in the way of

10 input $name
20 echo "hello $name"
30 goto 10

10 input name$
20 print "hello "; name$
30 goto 10

There, fixed it for you.

GOTO ? GOTO?!?!???

Go shoot yourself now for such sloppy code! ;-)

GOTO was an insta-fail when I were a lad!

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#619752 4-May-2012 19:07

Hey
Goto was one of the commands i had to learn in the BASIC manual that came with my Atari 400

And then i discovered GOSUB. Boy that was a fun day.

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#619830 4-May-2012 21:30

freitasm: There are still more lines of Cobol code around the world than anything else.

that's because it takes 20,000 lines of code in Cobol do perform "Hello World"

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