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N lines/hours is a useless metric unless you strictly only do coding to the spec in greenfield projects. E.g. compare using a code generator producing 20k LOC
by nuclx 9y ago
N lines/hours is a useless metric unless you strictly only do coding to the spec in greenfield projects. E.g. compare using a code generator producing 20k LOC in a millisecond with modifying an undocumented legacy system, where every slight change to the system's incoherent logic might blow up the hole thing.
- MichaelBurge 9y agoI'm saying the code generator would be written at the same net lines/second as the undocumented legacy system. I wouldn't count the 20k LOC as written code. The code generator may be a more efficient project, but the rate at which it's built seems to be the same.
- YZF 9y agoIt's a useless metric in any project. A million line code base can have a lot of value or negative value. If you wrote that at 10 lines/hour your productivity is anything between -X$/hour and +Z$/hour. What does productivity mean in software engineering? Not # of lines of code produced.