7 Nov
2022
7 Nov
'22
11:50 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 2:34 PM Charles H Sauer (he/him) <
sauer(a)technologists.com> wrote:
On 10/11/2022 3:14 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
Speaking of "just stupid"
Word on the street is that Elon Musk stack ranked the engineers by lines of
code
over the last year (source: https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter) and layed off
the bottom
performers in terms of LoC...
Not 100% sure this is legit, since some tweets about it have been deleted.
Warners
On 11 Oct 2022 13:10 -0700, from lm(a)mcvoy.com
(Larry McVoy):
You're getting no argument from me there.
It was likely true that some parts of IBM put heavy emphasis on LOC, but
as Marc points out, that wasn't true in Research. I don't remember heavy
LOC emphasis in AIX groups, and I suspect even in Boca (OS/2) there was
not "heavy" emphasis.
Isn't it relatively well established, though, that IBM culture at
least for a very long time put heavy emphasis on counting lines of
source code, and that more SLOC was considered to be better?
That's just stupid.