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Why do people measure LOC? Because they're trying to measure the productivity of programmers. Why are they doing that? Largely to decide how to reward them. Ye
by create_account 19y ago
Why do people measure LOC? Because they're trying to measure the productivity of programmers. Why are they doing that? Largely to decide how to reward them.
Yes.
But if I'm an IT manager at a large company, the answer to that question is not startups (it's not LOC, either).
(I know this site is all rah rah startups and I'm not trying to harsh anyone's mellow, but this question is still largely unanswered)
- palish 19y agoTo be fair, startups are one way to measure productivity. But since it takes 2-10 programmers for most startups to be successful, there's no way everyone can start a startup (at least right now). So I was wondering more about what everyone's ability to pump out code is, in the simplest metric: programming language plus line count per day or week. And sorry, but I don't think auto code generation is fair to include unless you're coding the code generation (that is, you've set up a Lisp macro or something similar). Here, I'll go first: In the last three days, I've built a 1200 line system which is of medium complexity. The language is C++. Shawn
- pg 19y agoIt could be, if you're a high enough manager. You could let two similar projects compete and see who got the most users internally, then release that.