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cratermoon on June 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Swift Programming Language

How objective can something be if the criteria vary depending on the comparison?

gtrak on June 4, 2014 [–]

I'm not sure what you mean.

Lines of code is an objective measure. How meaningful that might actually be, well, that's subjective.

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