Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your concern, as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.

Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.

Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.