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There's also the fact that it discourages negative amounts of LOC per day, which often results in bugs not being fixed because that's an operation where there's a high likelihood of a net loss of lines of code.

The only moments where I use LOC as a metric is when doing initial scoping for a source code review, and even then, it's barely useful.

/y

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Musselman, Paul
Sent: 03 October 2019 22:32
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Lines of code per day?

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
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