Many years ago I worked for a large Japanese Multinational and my manager, who was
(is) very respected there actually told us once "a good programmer is known by the
quantity of code he generates."
They had all kinds of source code line-counts and even put up graphs showing which
programmer is "best" at any given time. It got so ridiculous that when talk of bonuses
tied to these metrics started floating, we all were in a race to see who could
generate the most bloated code. None of us hid this fact from the manager, we laughed
about it thinking finally they would see how silly this metric was. Nope. He loved it
and reported back to Tokyo that we were really getting into the company policies.
Needless to say, no decent programmers stayed there long.
At 11:49 PM 9/21/00 -0700, Mark Warrick wrote:
>I see a few others have come up with some good solutions for you. (whew)
>
>Hopefully I don't sound fecitious for asking this, but WHY? You're not being paid by
>the line, are you?
>
>---mark
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Norloff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 7:25 AM
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>> Subject: Line count of 1600 files?
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>> My supervisor would like a line count of all CF code in our
>> project. That's 1,603 files - what's a reasonable way of getting
>> a line count, or something similar?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Chris Norloff
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