Whenever anyone talks about lines of code as a productivity measure, I’m reminded of this story about Bill Atkinson (arguably the most brilliant developer on th

Whenever anyone talks about lines of code as a productivity measure, I’m reminded of this story about Bill Atkinson (arguably the most brilliant developer on the original Macintosh and Lisa teams) [1]. Just to note, this event occurred years before the Macintosh released, when the code was far from mature. [1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...