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I'm sure that works reasonably well in most cases, but it is a bit of a fallacy that it take a similar amount of effort to write each LOC.
by CharlesColeman 7y ago
I'm sure that works reasonably well in most cases, but it is a bit of a fallacy that it take a similar amount of effort to write each LOC.
- ytpete 7y agoI think the idea is that, when you're measuring in units of many thousands of LOC, those differences roughly average out. Whether that's true across widely differing parts of such a huge system I'm not convinced, but within a single more typical software project it seems believable to me.
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoYou are correct. For reasons of expediency I did not mention that there's a "difficulty" factor which is usually expressed by a variable LOC/hour rate. e.g., Server backend code might be estimated at 100 LOC/day whereas code for an 8-bit embedded controller might be 10 LOC/day.