emmenjay | April 16, 2012 at 2:08 am |
It’s not hard to produce even tens of thousands of lines of code with zero defects.
Just don’t expose the code to a compiler.
With the standard practice of code re-use, very high numbers of lines of code can be produced with little defect, too; provided the compiled code isn’t exposed to users.
More to the point, defect counts reveal little about the design; looking at the particulars of the cases in question, where it appears the design itself was re-used and the users compliant to the needs of that design (a very unusual situation), it’s particularly meaningless to compare to the general case.