On 10/11/2022 3:14 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2022 13:10 -0700, from lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy):
>>> 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.
>
> 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.
Speaking of "just stupid"
Word on the street is that Elon Musk stack ranked the engineers by lines of code
performers in terms of LoC...
Not 100% sure this is legit, since some tweets about it have been deleted.
Warners