Re: Lines of code per day?

[Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My very first thought was this (semi related)....
https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13


Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Jonathan Wilson <piercing_male@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:54 AM

To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Lines of code per day?

 


On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 11:15 -0400, Jon Paris wrote:

> From my experience the only thing that rating programmers based on

> LOC does is encourage bad programming practice.

>

> Which of these two programmers is most efficient?  The guy who wrote:

>

> Temp1 = a + b;

> Result = Temp1 / c;



I think I may be in for a LOC bonus...





TheValueIwant = AddTwoNbrsProcedure(value1:value2);



BeginProc AddTwoNbrsProcedure

a;

b;

ReturnResult;



Temp1 = a;

Temp2 = b;

Temp3 = Temp1 + Temp3

ReturnResult = Temp3;



Return ReturnResultl

EndProc



;-) 



(Obviously some pseudo code and defines omited)



>

> or the one who wrote:

>

> Result = ( a + b ) / c;

>

> Having had to clear up the mess created in projects where LOC was the

> measure cured me of this approach for life.

>

>

> Jon Paris

>

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>

>

> > On Aug 28, 2019, at 10:12 AM, Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx>

> > wrote:

> >

> > I've searched the archives and haven't found anything on this

> > subject.

> > Has anyone ever done a study or published anything on a standard

> > number of lines of code per day, for mid-range programmers?

> > Anyone ever evaluated this for hiring or retention purposes?

> >

> > I know the old saw from the Mythical Man Month about ten lines of

> > tested code per day (for any language on any platform), but that

> > can't be true anymore, right?

> > So, I thought I'd start a firestorm here on the subject. Any

> > thoughts?

> > -- 

> >

> > Best Regards,

> >

> > Thomas Garvey

> >

> >

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