alt Hacker NewsLoC is a good code quality metric, only it has to be inverted. Not "it wrote C compiler in 100 000 lines of code", but "in just 2000 lines of code". Now that is impressive and deserves praise.
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Kerrick • yesterday at 5:22 PM
I don't want to maintain an information system written in the style of code golf competitions, either.
I like the author's proposed "Comprehension coverage" metric. It aligns well with Naur's Programming as Theory Building.
hamuraijack • yesterday at 5:28 PM
this is also easily gameable. Any language can easily be converted into a single LOC
Not necessarily.
If I minimize my project and get everything on one line, is that good? I think not.
Measuring success based on how may or how few lines there are is a bad idea, I think.