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.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)

Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

Topics: programming, software engineering