On 2010-07-08, at 9:21 PM, Steve Dekorte wrote: > > Thanks for the response. That kind of sounds like the goal is fewer lines of > code (and presumably less labor) per unit of function (increasing > productivity). Is that correct?
Well, I don't speak for Alan, but I have to think it's a bit more than that. The biggest problem we have in computing is that we're terrible at it. Just the other day I remarked to a colleague that the system we were working on had about 10x too much code for what it did, and he agreed. So yes, less code for the same functionality might (might!) be higher productivity, but it's also a rough measure of quality. Writers seek economy of words, athletes seek economy of motion, we seek economy of code. Colin _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
