Re: [Q]: How many lines of Cobol running worldwide???

From: Judson McClendon (judmc_at_sunvaley0.com)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:09:32 GMT

"Thane Hubbell" <thaneh@softwaresimple.com> wrote:
> You can also get into the whole "what's a line of code". Pre or post
> copybook expansion? Comments - do they count? Etc etc...
>
> A relatively small system I maintain has 140,000 lines of code
> precopybook expansion and including comments.

I count copy code once, not for each use. I believe comments are an
integral part of source code. If the comments aren't needed, take them
out. If they are needed, then they are part of the code. :-) 

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