[dopamean]

There's probably 490 million lines of comments explaining all the quid pro quos needed to get the thing built.

[Ellipsis753]

The quote was "According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code." So I would highly doubt that "software code" would also include comments.

[jnbiche]

Why would you think that? Most executable code includes lots of comments, unless it's been preprocessed.

Still, I agree the figure is outrageous.

[Ellipsis753]

I don't usually count comments to as lines of code. I didn't realize that some people did. Perhaps I'm just unusual in how I count them. It seems there's some ambiguity however so it's very possible that they were counting comments after all.