"If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'"

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Source : "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. December 2, 1988.

Edsger Dijkstra

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