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Who was that guy who suggested using lines written plus lines deleted. Was it Knuth?
by tpyo 17y ago
Who was that guy who suggested using lines written plus lines deleted. Was it Knuth?
- ynniv 17y agoA line deleted is worth 2 written.
- cousin_it 17y agoAll numeric metrics of programmer productivity are easily gamed, but yours is particularly so: just add and delete one line repeatedly.
- eru 17y agoThat's true, when you use the metric to influence some material gain or loss for the developer. As an indicator for the state of a project (and its speed) together with other metrics, it may not be too bad.
- daniel-cussen 17y agoHoly shit, I just thought of this yesterday after making great progress by deleting code.