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David Auerbach on That New York Times "500 Million Lines of Code" Claim

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Backwoods Sleuth10/22/2013 2:37:37 pm PDT

re: #32 GeneJockey

Okay, I confess I have no clue about coding. But I was just remembering the poor bastards in college, learning COBOL, with their shoeboxes full of cards, and imagining 500,000,000 cards.

THere aren’t enough shoe boxes in the world.

And those pesky hanging chads on the punch cards…