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.
@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).
@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).