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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by calroc on Monday November 17, 2014 @02:32PM (#8619962)
"... From there it is only a small step to measuring "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced per month". This is a very costly measuring unit because it encourages the writing of insipid code, but today I am less interested in how foolish a unit it is from even a pure business point of view. My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger."

~Dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103...

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Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week by christiangenco on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @01:47PM (#8625513)
Precisely. This should be an automatic trigger whenever "lines of code" is mentioned as a metric.

I'm reminded of the "-2000 lines of code" story: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...

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