In <CAAJSdji4DNweFb2WsM8eqnVh1o+8T_k=f1rL10Vx=ji5jhd...@mail.gmail.com>, on 03/29/2014 at 09:07 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:
>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/information-overload-i-know-too-much-to-program-quickly-what-can-i-do/ >Basically the author is saying that he has a problem. He knows so >much now, especially trying to anticipate problems, that his >coding is slower. And so he is NOT PRODUCTIVE! What is the metric? If it's raw lines of code[1]/month then he's less productive. If it's correct lines of code/month then he's more productive. "There's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over." [1] Leading to deliberately sloppy code. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
