> If a manager ranked you based on a statistic of your lines of code produced per day, you would rightly be derisive Yes, but this wouldn't make "lines of code

> If a manager ranked you based on a statistic of your lines of code produced per day, you would rightly be derisive Yes, but this wouldn't make "lines of code" metric "pseudoscience" or "swindle". The metric is real, even if its applications are not correct.