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"Lines of code are not produced but spent" (can't remember the author)



Dijkstra, of course. From the excellent and predictably poorly received On the cruelty of really teaching computing science[1]:

  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.
[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...




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