Re: Lines of code per day?

[Chris Pando <chris.pando@xxxxxxxxx>]

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.


— ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 6:53 AM <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2019-08-28 10:59, Chris Pando wrote:
> > We don't reward the person who designs the heaviest airplane; lines of
> > code
> > is meaningless. Or, as Ken Thompson said, one of my most productive
> > days
> > was thrwing away 1,000 lines of code.
>
> ^ This.
>
> I my first few months at my only experience in a mega-corp, I refactored
> three projects.  Collectively they were 80% smaller than the originals,
> better documented, executed more efficiently, and were more easily
> understood by the 'next guy'.  Am I a worse programmer than the persons
> who wrote the originals?  My KLOCs that day sucked.
>
> -A
> --