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> You could write 50,000 lines of code in a day if typing was the only bottleneck. I'm not sure about that: 60wpm ÷ 6 words per LOC = 10 LOC per minute 60 mi
by gary_0 2y ago
> You could write 50,000 lines of code in a day if typing was the only bottleneck.
I'm not sure about that:
60wpm ÷ 6 words per LOC = 10 LOC per minute
60 mins × 8 hours × 10 LOC = 4800 LOC per day
- marginalia_nu 2y agoYeah but I'm assuming you're using an IDE though, if not copilot. Obviously it's dependent on the verbosity and amount of boilerplate of the language. Probably more realistic in Java than APL.
- gary_0 2y agoTo write 50,000 LOC in 8 active work hours, you'd need to input a line of code every 576 milliseconds. But I was just checking the math for fun, not trying to disprove your main point. You could argue that if human thought was not needed to write code, you wouldn't really need a keyboard at all and thus the amount of code you could input would be virtually unlimited.