Dijkstra, of course. From the excellent and predictably poorly received On the cruelty of really teaching computing science[1]: My point today is that, if we

Dijkstra, of course. From the excellent and predictably poorly received On the cruelty of really teaching computing science[1]: My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger. [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...