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This leads to the question what 'productive' really means. If a productive programmer writes a lot of code that isn't maintainable at all, can you really call t
by maze-le 11y ago
This leads to the question what 'productive' really means. If a productive programmer writes a lot of code that isn't maintainable at all, can you really call that person productive? Maybe... but the poor sob tasked with maintaining the code later, will certainly not be called productive.
Maybe productivity should not be regarded isolated from other metrics and/or certain style-considerations.
- bcheung 11y agoWhat is the true measure of productivity? If you include things like maintenance and other developers' time are they really being productive? There's individual productivity and team productivity. Also a quick one time job is different than something that needs to be maintained. Everything is relative to the goals.