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Dijkstra on SLOC

By Andrey Butov

June 8th, 2009

“I knew that each Apollo flight required some 40,000 new lines of code.

I don’t know what unit a line of code is … “

… but 40,000 is a lot.”

(photo ©2002 Hamilton Richards)
(photo ©2002 Hamilton Richards)

– E.W. Dijkstra

– from a 25-minute visit with Dijkstra, filmed in Austin by Dutch public TV in autumn 2000.