Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!dww From: dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 08:45:05 GMT References: <1991Mar6.214157.18633@ntpal.uucp> <2628@p4tustin.UUCP> <11078@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department) Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 42 torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes: >Code `productivity' metrics are hard to define, but line counts are >not even a good approximation. I feel the same way about lines of code, BUT... After spending about 3 years trying to convince management that LOC is a stupid metric when you are using DBMS and program generators and stuff, we sat down one afternoon and counted all the blasted lines written and generated (including comments, they are the most valuable code!), added up the number of person-days (more or less 5 persons) on the project and came up with (GULP!) ~20 LOC/person/day. This was the number management wanted to see, it made their day when we were able to give them their little number. So it goes. -- Debora Weber-Wulff snail: FU Berlin, ZI Fachdidaktiken, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, W-1000 Berlin 33 email: weberwu@inf.fu-berlin.de, dww@math.fu-berlin.de