Do Scala/Clojure/etc. coders now write as many LOCs as the old COBOL masters? Yes, we probably do
Does this mean we're no more productive? Only if you measure productivity in LOCs, and some folk still do exactly that... Hardware has grown more powerful, to be sure; it's done so along an exponential curve, and our software is happily keeping up with those capabilities. Perhaps the amazing part is not that LOC hasn't shrunk, but that it hasn't grown exponentially as well. We're maintaining stable line counts while continuing to make our software more powerful. On 10 July 2010 09:04, jitesh dundas <[email protected]> wrote: > I beg to disagree on this one. > > I have seen that the amount of code that we have written till date has > grown to a big amount. As people keep writing the same software again an > again, we are coming up with libraries that are reducing the LOCs that we > use. > > Moreover, have you thought of third-party libraries that allow us to make > calls to common functions. for e,g, HTTP EMail CLient commons library of > Apache reduces the LOCs that we write. > > I think the problem is with us and the way we write. The resources for > reducing the efforts in coding are reducing day by day. It is only our > refusal to use them that is making us shape such opinions. > > Thanks, > jd > > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Vince O'Sullivan > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I was at uni in the early 1980s. During one coding lecture the >> lecturer turned around and said "I don't know why you lot are so >> concerned with learning this stuff anyway. Within ten years nobody >> will be coding anymore because the computer will be doing it all for >> you. >> >> As it turned out, the activities and productivity of an average Java, >> Scala (or any other language) progammer now are more or less identical >> to those of an average COBOL programmer thirty years or forty years >> ago. >> >> Whilst the hardware is faster and we have the Internet the only >> progress in coding languages seems to be more succinct syntax but >> we're we're still coding much the same stuff in much the same way as a >> generation ago. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
