Should we go back to measuring productivity by lines of code written?
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Augusto Sellhorn <
[email protected]> wrote:
> This is really bizarre, I've heard people say that fewer lines of code
> is desirable, but this is the first time I hear somebody say that X%
> fewer characters lead almost exactly to X% reduction in complexity!
>
> ---------------
>
> for(int
> indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration=0;
> indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration<=authorsFromNameQuery.length;
> ++indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration) {
> Author currentAuthorBeingIteratedOver
> = authorsFromNameQuery[indexOfAuthorInCurrentIteration]
> // do something with the author
> }
>
> ---------------
>
> Nobody is saying you have to use super long names here, what you are
> saying is that less characters more % reduction in complexity, which
> leads to this
>
> for (int i=0; i <= aq.length; ++i) {
> Author aa = aq[i];
> // do something with the author
> }
>
> Which I don't think results in any % less chances of bugs, as a matter
> of fact it ends up being less readable than some reasonable and clear
> names that could have been applied.
>
> I hope in your code reviews you are not doing character counts and
> blasting developers on these bogus measurements.
>
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