Doing ‘X’ in {some small number} Lines of Code

There have been enough of these in my information river lately that they have risen above the threshold of ‘annoying but ignorable’, so let me state for the record:

If you are importing libraries and you aren’t counting those libraries in your ‘Lines of Code’ claims, you are a liar.

And, as a corollary, claims that the program that does all the work in imported libraries (particularly ones that you didn’t write) is somehow ‘better’ than the one that doesn’t are just snake oil.


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