It can definitely be misleading, but it's still a useful metric. When I read "Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code" my thought is, cool, there's c

It can definitely be misleading, but it's still a useful metric. When I read "Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code" my thought is, cool, there's clearly a good barcode scanning library for Android in Python and I can look and find easy 6-line examples of how to do something useful with it. This makes that style of headline much more useful to me than "Python/Android Barcode Scanning Library Example Code" or somesuch, because it gives me some idea of the level of effort required to do something useful with the library (in this case 6 lines).