@lizardbill

I'm reminded of how IBM used to try to quantify coding for the purposes of promotion and bonuses:

It started with KLOC, which incentivized developers to write long, unwieldy code to juice up their LOC count.

So then it became Code Density, which incentivized developers to write a single line of inscrutably dense but functional code.

Finally they just gave up!

Yeah, so line count is not a measure of quality by any means whatsoever!

cc @pluralistic

@evdelen @lizardbill @pluralistic I'll never forget my 1st experience with KLOCs.

Boss: How many lines of code will this be?
Me: Um, Idunno, 1000.
later...
Boss: How many lines of code have you written?
Me: 250.
Boss: So, you're 1/4 done?
Me: Sure?

While KLOCs are completely useless, like every other software measurement, they had the advantage of being *quick* and relatively painless to produce.