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The average developer only produces about 500 lines of code per month, although LOC is such a bad metric that nobody is researching this anymore.
by Devilboy 16y ago
The average developer only produces about 500 lines of code per month, although LOC is such a bad metric that nobody is researching this anymore.
- mcs 16y agoSome actually try to remove lines of code on purpose. :)
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoSee Bill Atkinson, main developer of the Apple Lisa UI: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
- code_duck 16y agoYeah, or Paul Graham and his quest to make arc as concise as possible.
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- code_duck 16y agoNo wonder, since by that metric var r= dice(array,12) r=slice(r) r=trim(r) r=strip(r) is four times as productive as var r=strip(trim(slice(dice(array,12))))
- wlievens 16y agoYou can compute a more accurate LOC metric based on the language's grammar, so that the above situations are identically measured. But the issue with using LOC remains, of course.