I can write a program that is 1,000,000 lines of code, and a program that is 200 lines of code, and to the end user they would be doing the same thing.
Now, if you start establishing some rules about the type of code I'm allowed to write, then your statement becomes truer. But by no means do people actually follow that in the real world all the time.
Do you really think LoC does not impact maintainability? How much depends on language and adjacent tooling for things like refactors, but the larger a code base the harder it is to maintain in general.
kanbankaren|10 months ago
Have you studied Software Engineering? They discuss LOC in depth and many academic papers on KLOC are in SE literature.
chickenzzzzu|10 months ago
Now, if you start establishing some rules about the type of code I'm allowed to write, then your statement becomes truer. But by no means do people actually follow that in the real world all the time.
runevault|10 months ago