Also reminiscent of this quote from Dijkstra [0]: My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced"

Also reminiscent of this quote from Dijkstra [0]: 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. [0] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW...