Go To statement considered harmful - Edsger W. Dijkstra

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

Computer science is not about machines, in
the same way that astronomy is not about
telescopes. There is an essential unity of
mathematics and computer science.