Dijkstra’s quote from 1988 is even better: "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lin

Dijkstra’s quote from 1988 is even better: "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."