On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, at 23:59, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> 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’s firings based on LoC end up being mistaken.
But I’m also reading Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy while catching up on TUHS, I’m not
sure I believe in better places any more.
And it reminds me of the Pascal quote, “I have made this longer than usual because I have
not had time to make it shorter.”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
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Joseph Holsten