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It's worse than that. There is a standard way of assesing programmers productivity and is the worst it could be: kLOC's.
by samuel 17y ago
It's worse than that. There is a standard way of assesing programmers productivity and is the worst it could be: kLOC's.
- raganwald 17y ago> Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. --Bill Gates. My favourite consequence of measuring productivity by the line is to ask how much I owe my employer when I spend a day eliminating redundancy and thus contribute negative lines of code.
- wgj 17y agoActually, I've always seen kLOC as a divisor: defects/kLOC, branches/kLOC, etc. Even metrics like functions/kLOC are useful, if you believe in small functions.
- TeHCrAzY 17y agoWe use stats like this to help us gauge the project as a whole, but its considerly likely to be useless for measuring individuals productivity etc.
- nostrademons 17y agoBasically every programmer I've worked with agrees that kLOC is a terrible way of assessing productivity. I think it's only "standard" in the stupid section of the industry (which, alas, is much bigger than it should be).