> Every line is a potential bug. But there are many code lines that don't contain bugs. If only one could somehow make software only from those... I'd take a

> Every line is a potential bug. But there are many code lines that don't contain bugs. If only one could somehow make software only from those... I'd take a slightly more mathematical approach to the code lines predictor: zero lines of code contain zero bugs, an infinite amount of lines of code contains an infinite number of bugs. It follows immediately that yeah, LOC is massively important and no, we are not interested in that, what we do want to know is how everything else is influencing the derivative. (and on that digression about longish linear solutions: I completely stopped feeling bad about writing long, linear functions for long, linear problems. I've come to greatly prefer those over the indirections of forced subdivision. If there's a reason to subdivide other than "long is bad", great, go for it, but never subdivide just for having smaller parts. Use assign-once, nested scope etc to make the length more palatable)