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From: stevans@resumix.UUCP (Mark Stevans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: hardcopy/productivity inverse correlation
Keywords: hardcopy
Message-ID: <46@resumix.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 90 22:24:34 GMT
Reply-To: resumix!stevans@decwrl.dec.com (Mark Stevans)
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I invite commentary and/or anecdotes for or against the following thesis:

	There is, in general, an inverse correlation between the amount of
	source code hardcopy a programmer employs and the productivity of
	that programmer.

In my observation, the least competent programmers tend to print updated
listings of every line of every file of their source code at the same time
every day, and go through them with highlighters.  The best programmers I have
known don't even care if "lpr" exists or not.

Me?  I used to print tons of stuff until I recognized this principle :-)

					Mark Stevans
					resumix!stevans@decwrl.dec.com