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Re:How big is a Million Lines of Code? by aswanson on Sunday January 20, 2008 @09:32PM (#101412)
They need to come up with a new metric. LOC is so wrong for so many reasons. Running tested features seems like a good way to measure project progress but I don't know how it would relate to overall project complexity. http://www.xprogramming.com/Blog/Page.aspx?display=RunningTe...
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Re:How big is a Million Lines of Code? by dfranke on Monday January 21, 2008 @01:29AM (#101464)
LOC is a terrible measure of productivity, but as a long-term measure of work it's not so bad.
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