If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines …

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If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. ✨ On the cruelty of really teaching computing science by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. December 2, 1988.
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