Re: Lines of code per day?

It sure does lead to sloppy large programs.

I worked for a company that went bankrupt last year. Starting in the early
1990's they used a package (I cannot remember the name) that had lots of
large programs with multiple subroutines doing the same task - just copied.
I was told that it was written by Pakistanis that were paid by line of code.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 1:46 PM Yvan Janssens <friedkiwi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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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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