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In my own words ... Unless you have a programmer or programming staff whose only job it is to write code off of a spec written by someone else then lines of code per day is meaningless.
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Subject: Re: Lines of code per day?
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:12 AM Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Has anyone ever done a study or published anything on a standard
number of lines of code per day, for mid-range programmers?
Anyone ever evaluated this for hiring or retention purposes?
IMO 'Lines of code' as a metric is totally meaningless.
I've worked on a problem for days, changed one line of code, and solved a problem that was causing massive disruption.
On the other hand, I've created hundreds of lines of code in a single day ... that ended up being dumped in the trash the very next day.
Programming is as much art as it is science ... it's certainly not factory work. You cannot judge the productivity of a developer based on a simple output metric.
david
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