I seem to recall a quote from some computer scientist, possibly Knuth but I'm not sure, that went something like 'You optimize what you measure.' So if you mea

I seem to recall a quote from some computer scientist, possibly Knuth but I'm not sure, that went something like 'You optimize what you measure.' So if you measures LOC, you get LOC... and far more of them than is by any reason 'necessary.' Really a horrendous metric.