RE: Lines of code per day?

+1


Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Roger
Harman
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 6:56 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lines of code per day?

My very first thought was this (semi related)....
https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
Jonathan Wilson <piercing_male@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:54 AM

To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: 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?

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Best Regards,

Thomas Garvey

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