A lovely question! I asked that very question in the ‘90s as the Web was emerging. Back then we made a reasonably informed estimate of it approaching a trillion SLOC. Honestly, today, I suspect the number is as countable as the number of grains of sand on all worlds. @dcbrockhttps://twitter.com/dcbrock/status/1073339063552245761 …
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Care to crank the numbers with me again?
My back-of-the-envelope calculation gets to 5.5e12 LOC, which seems low (only 5.5x growth compared in 30 years ago?)
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Yeah, that smells way off. Nonetheless, I think there is little doubt it is a whopping big number.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’d love to see that envelope! Can you share your reasoning?
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Ah, Tis long gone
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