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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:

>
> Consider a military commmand and control system, a
> complex system with a lot
> of requirementss built in.   Now, think of this
> system in terms of its size: 4.5 million
> lines of source code.

But not all lines of source code are created equally.  Written in a
more expressive language the application might be only half that size,
or most likely even less.