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No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-somebody-on-the-teevee-said-so dept.

itwbennett writes: "Half a billion lines of code for a transactional website — more than five times as much code as that behind OS X — just didn't pass the sniff test. But just how many lines of code does it take to generate HealthCare.gov? This question came up on Reddit again last week and it appears that we may now have an answer. One commenter who claimed to have worked on HealthCare.gov as part of the post launch clean-up crew at the end of 2013, provided counts of the lines of code behind HealthCare.gov, broken down by programming/markup language."

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  1. Re: 646 lines of Perl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like the 25 lines of VB. I'd pay money to see what those are.

  2. Why should I believe this information? by sbrown123 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously. This account was created just to post some numbers and we are suppose to take them as fact? Hell, I could create an account on Reddit and come up with a totally different set of numbers and you can take my comment as fact too.