"Perhaps a better metric for software complexity would be the amount of work the computer has to do" By that definition a loop doing 1 billion times a simple c

"Perhaps a better metric for software complexity would be the amount of work the computer has to do" By that definition a loop doing 1 billion times a simple calculation would count as very complex, even though it is very easy to understand. LOC would be better, even though code can be dense and complivated, or very verbose and simple.