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From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects'
Date: 2000/02/19
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I would suggest that a bug figure for an overall operating system is not
very meaningful. How many of those bugs apply to critical code? How many to
totally unimportant code (e.g. games)?

The total number of lines of code may actually be a much more meaningful
statistic than the number of putative bugs, when it comes to evaluating the
reliability of Windows 2000 (or parts thereof). If the figures indicate
serious 'bloat', this indicates poorly programmed software at a fundamental
level.

In fact, the citation of Windows 2000 being written in 30-40 million lines
of code raises a further question in my mind: which programming languages
does this figure cover, and in what proportions?

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Nick Roberts
http://www.adapower.com/lab/adaos