> Factor, re-factor, and (most especially) DELETE Lines of code is a passable metric for the quality of work if they are considered "spent", not "created". Tha

> Factor, re-factor, and (most especially) DELETE Lines of code is a passable metric for the quality of work if they are considered "spent", not "created". That is, the programmer's work is better, all else being equal, if it takes fewer lines of code. Who said so? Knuth, Wirth, Dijkstra, Perlis?..