The wonderful wizard of LoC: paying attention to the man behind the curtain of lines-of-code metrics
Kalev Alpernas, Yotam M. Y. Feldman, Hila Peleg · 2020
Lines-of-code metrics (loc) are commonly reported in Programming Languages (PL), Software Engineering (SE), and Systems papers. This convention has several different, often contradictory, goals, including demonstrating the `hardness' of a problem, and demonstrating the `easiness' of a problem. In many cases, the reporting of loc metrics is done not with a clearly communicated intention, but instead in an automatic, checkbox-ticking, manner.