Is it possible to debug 2 million lines of code? (The scene with Nedry at Jurassic Park) [closed]

In a famous scene with John Hammond and Nedry, Nedry says that he is the only one who can debug 2 million lines of code. So after that scene and with my frustration I googled and some websites say that 2 million lines of code is equal to the Windows 3.1 operating system made with 2.5 Million lines of code approximately.

Question:

So is it possible that only one person can code/debug 2 million lines of code, and considering that the "Park" needed to be open to get some income profits, and to pay the investors?

Scene: https://twitter.com/jurassicworld/status/870729372113686529?lang=en

Information: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/

Please consider the age of the character in that scene and many things like weekend time, holidays, family time and if the "character" became temporarily sick and etc. A few minutes after that, John Hammond told Alan Grant in the Travel Trailers that Nedry is conspiring with another character (Lewis Dodgson) so that time is not for "coding or work" or production related, so please consider that time like in the examples above.

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Best Answer

I'm a programmer, and we call this "exaggeration to impress the buffoons"

Hammond doesn't know programming, it's possible although unlikely that there ARE 2 million lines of code involved, but unlikely.

Debugging it doesn't involve reading it all in one pass like a book looking for errors, but it is difficult. When I tell my boss I need to debug code I don't tell him I'm pressing SHIFT+CTRL+B repeatedly and fixing anything that errors.

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How many lines of code are in Jurassic Park?

The software in the book, written by Dennis Nedry and his team, had half a million lines of code. They inflated this number to two million when mentioned in the movie.

What was Dennis mistake in Jurassic Park?

Dennis Nedry, the systems programmer for the original Jurassic Park was John Hammond's biggest hiring mistake. For as many times as Hammond claims to have \u201cspared no expense,\u201d it seems the most important manager in the park (the one who controls all the security systems) isn't getting fair compensation for his work.

What happened to the embryos in Jurassic Park?

He collects the embryos from cold storage after turning off the island's security systems. However, on the way to meet with his contact, he gets in a car accident. Nedry tries to extricate his car but he is attacked by a Dilophosaur, with the embryo cans being washed away and ultimately buried in mud.

JURASSIC PARK - Hammond \u0026 Nedry in The Control Room

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