KLOC

                        before  after   reduction

        copyfiles           71     32      54.9 %
        delfiles            10      7      30.0 %
        ttt                231    122      47.2 %
        recurse             30     17      43.4 %
        extract             84     34      59.5 %

        TOTAL              426    212      50.2 %

Programmer productivity is sometimes measured in "lines of code per day"
Some programmers are rewarded on this basis
Apparently the work I've just done has had a substantial negative value

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