Re: Lines of code per day? -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 2:44 PM Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does the apparent disregard for LOC metrics mean that no one is
developing applications/systems from the ground up anymore?
Seems like responses are all about support type environments.

Well, most IBM i shops are small, and people working there are often
tasked with both writing new stuff and supporting existing stuff.

But apart from that, the disregard for LOC, even in the limited
context of writing brand new code, comes from LOC being a poor measure
of usefulness or quality.

No one has reviewed a recently completed new application to see how much
each LOC actually cost?

What everyone is telling you is that this isn't really a good question
to ask. You should be concerned about how well the application meets
the customer's needs, how reliable the application is, how
maintainable and extensible it is in the future, etc. LOC has
basically no bearing whatsoever on any of those *actually important*
things.

John Y.

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