Counting lines of code as a production metric is very stupid.
I remember solving an unsolvable 20 years old bug with a line of code, another 3 years old with a order by. How to measure the impact of a line of code? And in my experience, bad programmers write a lot more code...
I will never forget the story[1] of a Microsoft developer rewriting a piece of IBM code that had 33 thousand characters, after rewrite ... 220. This generated a war because MS's work was... negative.
I will never forget the story[1] of a Microsoft developer rewriting a piece of IBM code that had 33 thousand characters, after rewrite ... 220. This generated a war because MS's work was... negative.
[1] https://archive.org/details/bigbluesunmaking00carr/page/4/mo... page 101