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Lauri

@sqrt2 @rysiek

BillG is quoted saying ”measuring programmer progress by LoC is like measuring aircraft progress by weight,” and IIRC this was in the mid-nineties. So it’s worse than MS a quarter of a decade ago.

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ben

@rytmis @rysiek Not convinced that's a real quote, though (on the basis that if it were, it'd surely be on the Wikiquote page, but apparently there's no reliable source for that).

Lauri

@sqrt2 @rysiek

Welp, at the very least it’s a misattribution that’s two decades old—I remember it floating around the net in the early ’00.

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