12 Oct
2022
12 Oct
'22
2:02 a.m.
On 11 Oct 2022 12:54 -0700, from lm(a)mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy):
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:43:19PM -0400, Marc Donner
wrote:
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?
I definitely recall it being mentioned in _Triumph of the nerds_ as a
major issue between IBM and Microsoft during development of OS/2.
--
Michael Kjörling
https://michael.kjorling.se
“Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
So, come annual review time he gets the most
negative possible score.
Why? Because he produced -480K lines of code.
Whoever wrote that review should have been fired. Absolutely no clue.