Features are an asset, but code and large teams are liabilities. As a developer, your mission is figuring out how to do more with less. Your most powerful tool in this struggle for economy is abstraction.
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Replying to @jdegoes
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. — Dijkstra EWD1036
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I'm kind of proud that the Scheme program I'm using is only ~5 klocs (+ as much in libraries written), when I estimate a Java program to do the same would be about ten times as big, reusing existing libraries.
7:22 AM - 9 Feb 2018
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