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-2000 Lines Of Code (metrics == bad) (1982)

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by gridspy • 17 years ago

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DanielStraight• 17 years ago

Actually this might prove the opposite. The intention is of course that his removing of 2000 lines of code while improving behavior is a good thing. Therefore a change in number of lines of code is significant. Therefore you should track lines of code. I track lines of code to get a sense for when there's more lines of code than seem necessary so I can go chopping it away until it becomes manageable.

gridspy• 17 years ago

I do a similar thing on a file by file level. Once a file or single function grows too long, it is time for a refactor.

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