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In a past life, working for a company half funded by IBM, we had IBM staff complain about the same issue - our code base was too small, and the KLOCs ([K]thousand [L]lines [O]of [C]code) were not very high. A month or so later we reviewed the numbers, and told them we had miscalculated the KLOCs. They were happier. In reality we had stuffed functions that would never be called all over the source code to bloat it... --phil > This may or may not be true, but it's a good story regardless. > > When Micro$oft and IBM were collaborating on OS/2, supposedly the IBM people > got very annoyed with the Micro$oft programmers for trying to make the > programs shorter because fewer lines of code meant lower productivity. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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