Quote #500 `... If We Wish To Count Lines Of Code, We Should Not Regard Them As ``lines Produced'' But As ``lines Spent.

Quote #500 `... If We Wish To Count Lines Of Code, We Should Not Regard Them As ``lines Produced'' But As ``lines Spent.

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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

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Quote #673 We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
-- W. Gate...
Source code is missing a few lines.
It was the best of lines, it was the worst of lines.
Just pick up the phone and give modem connect sounds.
Well you said we should get more lines so we don't have voice lines....
Ignore any lines above this one - we are having problems with our mailer.
Quote #629 Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gate...
There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face. -- The Eagle
fat electrons in the line
Dew on the telephone lines.