Anytime someone mentions LOC count, I have to reply with this great line from Dijkstra: [I]f we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "line

Anytime someone mentions LOC count, I have to reply with this great line from Dijkstra: [I]f we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.