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Re: Lines of code per day?

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.


— ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 6:53 AM <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2019-08-28 10:59, Chris Pando wrote:
We don't reward the person who designs the heaviest airplane; lines of
code
is meaningless. Or, as Ken Thompson said, one of my most productive
days
was thrwing away 1,000 lines of code.

^ This.

I my first few months at my only experience in a mega-corp, I refactored
three projects. Collectively they were 80% smaller than the originals,
better documented, executed more efficiently, and were more easily
understood by the 'next guy'. Am I a worse programmer than the persons
who wrote the originals? My KLOCs that day sucked.

-A
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