Re: OT: Working from home

Unless I disremember, that is from Fred Brooks 'The Mythical Man Month' and referred to writing an IBM OS ( forget which one ), and was assembly code.

This was for fully documented and unit tested code.

And it was 6 lines, not 10. :)

Jared

On Monday 18 June 2001 05:00, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:
> Didn't IBM have a "standard", something like a good programmer will produce
> ten lines of code per day?
>
> That was in the days before OOP, though.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Spence [SMTP:cspence_at_FuelSpot.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:05 PM
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> Subject: RE: OT: Working from home
>
> My theory is this.
>
>
> A loosely used ratio for performance reviews.
>
>
> (Number of Bugs Resolved x Number of Projects x Number of lines of
> code -
> (Bugs introduced in your code x 500))
>
> But use this with a grain of salt as many things are involved in
> programming
> and lines of codes, bugs, and number of products are all relative to
> the
> current situation.
>
>
> "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are
> easy if
> both are frozen."
>
> Christopher R. Spence
> Oracle DBA
> Fuelspot
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 3:55 AM
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> On Friday 15 June 2001 06:00, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
> > There was a manager in that same shop who measured her programmers
> > abilities by the number of lines of code they wrote in a day. She
>
> also
> said
>
> > to me once "I don't like to waste time on design"
>
> Rachel,
>
> Remember the Dilbert where the PHB tells the engineers
> that he'll pay a cash incentive for every bug the find
> and fix?
>
> Wally leave the meaning saying " I'm gonna code me a minivan!"
>
> As for lines of code, one could get even by writing succint
> obtuse code before leaving. ;)
>
> Jared
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