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So-called "best practices" sometimes appear burdensome to programmers. Corporate metric and coding standards may have their place, some may grant, but the overhead and documentation with such systems ...

Source Lines Of Code (SLOC) is a software metric used to measure the size of a software program by counting the number of lines in the text of the program’s source code. SLOC is typically used to ...