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		dclowd9901 on Aug 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and d... Notably the graphs didn’t make any sense to me. Don’t bugs go up as LOC go up? That’s my intuition at least.

vlz on Aug 19, 2023 [–]

Yup, but who knows, that graph also doesn't even bother with a description on thy y-axis, maybe it is supposed to go from 0 "maximum bugs" (zero code non-buggy) all the way up to "no bugs" (all lines of code bug free). Or maybe the author just wanted something colorful for us to look at.

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