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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program
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Date: 24 Mar 91 19:31:53 GMT
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According to dww@math.fu-berlin.de (Debora Weber-Wulff):
>(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.

Management education is a part of a real programmer's job.

If you hand them a meaningless number, you do them and yourself a
disservice -- even if they think they want it.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
   "All this is conjecture of course, since I *only* post in the nude.
    Nothing comes between me and my t.b.  Nothing."   -- Bill Coderre