Ledger quotes

Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra

Lines of Code

“My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent': the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.”

• Source: Dijkstra (1988) On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD1036). Retrieved 2022 from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

• See Also:
  • Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra_quotes
  • Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra_quotes/Lines_of_Code

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