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List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, at 23:59, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > Rob Pike wrote: > >> I think it is (used to be?) a common pattern. > > Clearly, the metric in both cases should have been the absolute > value of the number of lines of code changed... > > Both stories are rather sad; one hopes that today's world is > a better place. I do hope the anecdotes of twitter=E2=80=99s firings based on LoC end up= being mistaken. But I=E2=80=99m also reading Machiavelli=E2=80=99s Discourses on Livy wh= ile catching up on TUHS, I=E2=80=99m not sure I believe in better places= any more. And it reminds me of the Pascal quote, =E2=80=9CI have made this longer = than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.=E2=80=9D http= s://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ -- Joseph Holsten