AMming, unit> (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a progrAMming project. For exAMple, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC or one can characterise a week' s progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages progrAMmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines. (2001-05-28)