From: 71660.412@CompuServe.COM (Eric C Aker)
Subject: LOC Lines of Code debate
Date: 26 Mar 91 05:43:49 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <"910326054349.71660.412.CHE55-1"@CompuServe.COM> (raw)
I just have to get in to this debate.
When I was working for a major airplane company some years ago all of
the programmers were told to give a LOC count in each weakly (sic)
report. Of course a tool was written to automatically count lines and
give differences from last week. We all grumbled and one of the
programmers came up with this great analogy.
"Measuring progress on a SW project in lines of code is like measuring
progress on an airplane in pounds of aircraft designed. Would any
serious manager ask his aircraft designers how many pounds of airplane
did you design this week? It is true that after the aircraft is done
you can compute productivity in pounds of aircraft per manday, but it
is not a very useful number."
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1991-03-26 5:43 Eric C Aker [this message]
1991-03-28 10:36 ` LOC Lines of Code debate George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University
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1991-04-01 15:22 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1991-03-26 5:43 Eric C Aker
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