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Now? I've personally heard quantities of code measured in "lines of code" (or, thousands of lines of code-- "K-LOCs") going back to the mid-90's. An acquaintanc

Now? I've personally heard quantities of code measured in "lines of code" (or, thousands of lines of code-- "K-LOCs") going back to the mid-90's. An acquaintance who worked for IBM in the 70's said it dates back at least that far (measuring developer productivity in the "K-LOCs" they produce).

mega_dingus 6y ago
See Mythical Man-Month published in 1975 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
It's been going on since the 1960s (maybe longer). Personally, I think the best code is the code I don't write. A significant part of my refactoring, is removing as much code as possible, by tweaking algorithms, deriving common base classes, and removing unused code branches. Every line of code is a potential bug. The less code, the less bugs.
- beckingz 6y ago
  Negative lines of code are a good day's work. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
  - ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
    Love that story!
- BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 6y ago
  There's a number of times I added significant new function to programs while ripping out great gobs of code. My favorite was replacing a function call with a single character constant. Then there were two employers who demanded code proliferation (management incentives tied to KLOCs?). Didn't last long at either place.
CodeArtisan 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs&t=1205s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFYsvxHZOs&t=1205s (start at 20:05 if timestamp fails).
- shimonabi 6y ago
  This Ballmer clip is the first thing I think about when I hear K-LOC.