Possible answers: 1. The contractors decided that one and two-thirds lines of code were necessary for each person in the USA. 2. When it is finally working, we can read it and then know what it says. [paraphrasing Nancy Pelosi's comment that we should first pass the legislation and then we would know what was in it] 3. The contractors were paid by the line of code they produced rather than the length of time it took to write the code, and most of the lines of code that were counted are comments. 4. They had to redo the first 250 million lines of code because the dog ate it. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Sambataro (NIH/NBS) [E]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:57:39 AM Subject: Re: ObamaCare Web Site Problems I've read that the Obamacare software contains 500 million lines of code, how can that be? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
