Re: Lines of code per day?

[Blair Hamren <bhamren@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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> Musselman, Paul
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>
> 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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