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Since when is LOC a valid indicator of hardcoriness?

• martinced 14y ago
  Well when one coder reaches 5 000 LOC of Java in one day, even if there are a few bugs in there, it still indicates some hardcorness. I've seen my ex CTO do that and it was fascinating. Hardcore startup style: "get the feature out as soon as possible because one of our first client badly needs it". Then, when you take a 100 KLOC codebase in Java/C+/Obj-C/whatever and trim it down to 10K LOC of some Lisp dialect, it kinda indicates some hardcoreness too. I know it's a "false" metric, but once you take sufficiently big values, it still serves a purpose.
  • pnathan 14y ago
    I once wrote about 4K of PhP in a day, a feat I still regret. It signaled nothing but my inefficiency in creating code.