I've been noticing lately that pop-science news reports like to include "lines of code" numbers in their reports.
For example, I was watching a report on some drone thing, and they quoted at some point "running in millions of lines of code."
Then I'm watching a piece on orbital dynamics and detecting extra planets, and they quoted lots of formulas and "8 thousand lines of code."
Does this really mean anything?
I remember when I used to do a lot of LISP programming, where phrases of code are embedded in other phrases of code in other phrases, and so on. Lines (carriage returns) were really only in there for readability. The QA people liked to audit the company's projects, and one of their questions was "How many lines of code is it?" My answer with LISP tended to be. "1 line of code: But it's a very, very big one."
Is this some new media trend? I suppose it is a little useful for comparison purposes, but doesn't seem to really tell you anything.
For example, I was watching a report on some drone thing, and they quoted at some point "running in millions of lines of code."
Then I'm watching a piece on orbital dynamics and detecting extra planets, and they quoted lots of formulas and "8 thousand lines of code."
Does this really mean anything?
I remember when I used to do a lot of LISP programming, where phrases of code are embedded in other phrases of code in other phrases, and so on. Lines (carriage returns) were really only in there for readability. The QA people liked to audit the company's projects, and one of their questions was "How many lines of code is it?" My answer with LISP tended to be. "1 line of code: But it's a very, very big one."
Is this some new media trend? I suppose it is a little useful for comparison purposes, but doesn't seem to really tell you anything.
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