[evla-sw-discuss] Software sizes

[Ken Sowinski]

> Station software:                                      100737 lines

good.  this seems more plausible than 0.5 million.
again, I suppose about half of it is for screens and
the rest for running the antenna

> Correlator software:                                    92840
> Associated Unix software:                               74458
> OMS Java code:                                          60096.

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> So about 330,000 thousand lines of code.

I went through the same exercise for the VLA a few years ago
and came up with around 50,000 lines.  This is surely an
underestimate, but 100,000 would just as surely be an 
overestimate.  Of that 50,000, about 10,000 is for operator
stuff.  In addition there are a number of programs that are
used offline to, for example, solve for baselines and the
pointing model.  If these were to be included I guess that
it would add no more than 10,000 lines.

so, for the current VLA, no more than 100,000 lines of code.