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| | Counting Source Lines of Code (SLOC) |
 | | Note that some projects (in particular KDE and GNOME) are in aggregate large enough to be one of the largest components, but because they are developed and distributed as a large number of smaller components, their totals don't appear in the list of largest components. |
 | | The languages used, sorted by the most lines of code, were C (71% - was 81%), C++ (15% - was 8%), shell (including ksh), Lisp, assembly, Perl, Fortran, Python, tcl, Java, yacc/bison, expect, lex/flex, awk, Objective-C, Ada, C shell, Pascal, and sed. |
 | | According to his sources, Windows NT 5.0 (in 2000) was 20M SLOC, Windows 2000 (in 2001) was 35M SLOC, and Windows XP (in 2002) was 40M SLOC. |
| www.dwheeler.com /sloc (887 words) |
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