For example, 20 lines of code in Java might easily require 200 lines of code in assembly language. In addition, measuring lines of code says absolutely nothing about code quality.

Using lines of code to measure effort and developer productivity often feels like something that would be another good example for this article.

While fewer lines of code are not always better (at some point it leads to obfuscation), they usually are, simply because there's fewer things to keep track of when trying to understand the code.

If you can compile 200 lines of standard C code with a C or C++ compiler, you are in business. There are no dependencies on other code. On the other hand, there’s not much documentation, either.

I built my own app without knowing a single line of code. It was surprising how fast I got everything to work using AI and other tools.