Re: Lines of code per day?

I remember a hundred years ago (well it seems like that long) I did a
project of converting IBM Basic programs running on a IBM 5120 (Used to
have 2 x 8 inch floppy drives) to RPG on a System 34.

I was being paid per program.

So I would do a few small ones and attempt one of the large ones each day
- Happy days!!!

As time went on ran out of small programs to convert and some of the big
ones were really big - Sad days!!!

But one program that used to run for many hours on the IBM 5120 ran in
seconds on the System 34 - This took days to prove output was correct - It
was - Boss gave me a bonus - Big Smile!!!

Cheers


Don Brown




From: "Jon Paris" <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
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Date: 04/10/2019 08:43 AM
Subject: Re: Lines of code per day?
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Many years ago the contracting company I worked for took over a major
development that was badly behind schedule.

Turned out that all the file definitions (and there were many, many files)
were manually copied into each source file to up the line count because
the payment schedule was based on "progress" and "progress" was defined in
terms of lines of code. The result of course was chaos during development
as every time a layout changed they had to change every copy of it (and
frequently missed bits). We switched to using COPY to bring in the
definitions and most of the programs shrunk by about 40%. Became much
more manageable after that.

I cured me of ever thinking that LOC was a good measure of anything!

On Oct 3, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Musselman, Paul

<pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Doesn't equating 'lines of code' to productivity encourage sloppy

programming and excessively large programs, just to up the lines of code??

We used to have a programmer who was enamored with a huge Xerox printer.

But the only way to justify the printer was to print X thousand pages a
month. So he created large reports and distributed them to people who
didn't need or want them, just to keep the printer busy.

Same idea.

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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