There was a clip on the documentary "triumph of the nerds" where Steve Balmer was complaining about working with IBM that they wanted KLOC (1000 Lines Of Codes)

There was a clip on the documentary "triumph of the nerds" where Steve Balmer was complaining about working with IBM that they wanted KLOC (1000 Lines Of Codes). If we can make it faster and shorter we're penalized he rightly said. When I started at Raytheon we had LOC (Lines of Code) reports, but it wasn't used much and disapeared. At one code review, someone pointed out a way to shorten and tighten up so code, and someone else chimed in, then it would be fewer lines... I haven't seen that metric since.