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The LoC metric drives me insane. To entertain myself, I mess with the LoC "bean counters" by writing overly verbose, first-pass code and then optimizing it dow

by Derrek 17y ago

The LoC metric drives me insane. To entertain myself, I mess with the LoC "bean counters" by writing overly verbose, first-pass code and then optimizing it down once I'm finished. It's my own little form of rebellion. "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

scott_s 17y ago
That's a different application of the same metric. Here, we're using LoC to measure the relative power of different languages. In your example, managers are using LoC to measure a developer's productivity.
- Derrek 17y ago
  oops, I guess I'll have to pay closer attention