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

Edsger Dijkstra
Learning, Wish, Lines
"On the cruelty of really teaching computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. December 2, 1988.
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent.