"Szabolcs Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a dijkstra quote [1] i've just stumbled upon and would like to share: > > The practice is pervaded by the reassuring illusion that programs are > just devices like any others, the only difference admitted being that > their manufacture might require a new type of craftsmen, viz. > programmers. From there it is only a small step to measuring > "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code > produced per month". This is a very costly measuring unit because it > encourages the writing of insipid code, but today I am less interested > in how foolish a unit it is from even a pure business point of view. > My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should > not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current > conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong > side of the ledger. > > > [1]: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
+1 Great quote. I suggest to put it on Wikiquote. Anyway I think this thought pattern/paradigm which arose from mass production from the industrialisation on will persist or will be become even worse (in whatever direction). That's a result from the being/existence in the current mode of production - even if great thinkers like Dijkstra complain about it. So it's our "duty" stand against it ;). Therefore for example the suckless project exists - very heroic, isn't it? Regards Matthias-Christian
