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Comment by rashthedude | Hacker News Reader

What type of application has 100 million loc's? Windows 7 has 40 million lines of codes so I'm wondering why type of application/software it is.

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I have a quite strong feeling that certain complex automated systems within financial services / insurances domain could reach those LOC levels. Including all the frontend side, internal backend logic, possible web services, internal tools, tests, tens to hundreds of interfaces to different kinds of external services, report generation, libraries, etc.

BINGO!

BINGO all you want but if you're at liberty to disclose such things (or to confirm them) you should have included it in your original write up.

Sure, 'cause if he/she had, you would already have found a solution! No need to be rude nor arrogant, even more if pointlessly so.

No, it's just that such information makes a huge difference to those that try to make sense of the question, especially a poorly defined and somewhat confusing question as posed here.

How exactly does knowing it's an insurance/finance application magically change the answer to "how to get my head around 100m lines of Java code"? Is there some "financial java code analysis" tool or technique that's so completely distinct from "engineering java code analysis" or "healthcare java code analysis" that it deserves a snotty, condescending retort?

An 'Ask HN' with this level of input is not a guessing game where the people that try to help have to play 'bingo' with the asker for information that may or may not be important for the answer. If there is context available and the asker is free to talk about that context then it should be supplied up-front.

There is nothing snotty or condescending about that, but there is something very weird about this whole thread, I wished I could put my finger on it.

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