• Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

    Capers Jones: Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.
    Capers Jones (1997). “Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality”, McGraw-Hill Companies