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At IBM in the 1980s, typical productivity would be 1,000 debugged, shipped lines of code per year. That was the metric that they used for their median employee.
by zappo2938 11y ago
At IBM in the 1980s, typical productivity would be 1,000 debugged, shipped lines of code per year. That was the metric that they used for their median employee. Where as, when we were shipping Half Life 1, one employee, Yahn Bernier, was shipping 4,000 lines of code per day.- Gabe Newell
- hasenj 11y agoI remember downloading the source code for HL2 (via the official SDK) and somehow I counted the lines of code and the number of programmers and the number of days it took to program and my calculations came to about 1000 lines per day per programmer. But I thought I must've made a mistake somewhere.