Re: Lines of code per day?

On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 11:15 -0400, Jon Paris wrote:

From my experience the only thing that rating programmers based on
LOC does is encourage bad programming practice.

Which of these two programmers is most efficient? The guy who
wrote:

Temp1 = a + b;
Result = Temp1 / c;

I think I may be in for a LOC bonus...

TheValueIwant = AddTwoNbrsProcedure(value1:value2);

BeginProc AddTwoNbrsProcedure
a;
b;
ReturnResult;

Temp1 = a;
Temp2 = b;
Temp3 = Temp1 + Temp3
ReturnResult = Temp3;

Return ReturnResultl
EndProc

;-)

(Obviously some pseudo code and defines omited)

or the one who wrote:

Result = ( a + b ) / c;

Having had to clear up the mess created in projects where LOC was
the
measure cured me of this approach for life.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Aug 28, 2019, at 10:12 AM, Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I've searched the archives and haven't found anything on this
subject.
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?

I know the old saw from the Mythical Man Month about ten lines of
tested code per day (for any language on any platform), but that
can't be true anymore, right?
So, I thought I'd start a firestorm here on the subject. Any
thoughts?
--

Best Regards,

Thomas Garvey


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