For example, 20 lines of code in Java might easily require 200 lines of code in assembly language. In addition, measuring lines of code says absolutely nothing about code quality.

If you can compile 200 lines of standard C code with a C or C++ compiler, you are in business. There are no dependencies on other code. On the other hand, there’s not much documentation, either.

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