The Programmer Productivity Paradox
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If the average programmer writes about 50 lines of production code a day. A 50,000 line program would take 1,000 man days to produce. The 50,000 line listing can be entered by a programmer at about 1,000 lines a day or about 50 man days. So what the heck are the developers doing for the other 950 days?
Can you write a program that writes itself? Oh, a different paradox.
What are developers doing when they're not coding? Drinking, eating bacon, and posting on The Lounge, according to my highly scientific study.
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If the average programmer writes about 50 lines of production code a day. A 50,000 line program would take 1,000 man days to produce. The 50,000 line listing can be entered by a programmer at about 1,000 lines a day or about 50 man days. So what the heck are the developers doing for the other 950 days?
Can you write a program that writes itself? Oh, a different paradox.
What are developers doing when they're not coding? Drinking, eating bacon, and posting on The Lounge, according to my highly scientific study.
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If the average programmer writes about 50 lines of production code a day. A 50,000 line program would take 1,000 man days to produce. The 50,000 line listing can be entered by a programmer at about 1,000 lines a day or about 50 man days. So what the heck are the developers doing for the other 950 days?
Can you write a program that writes itself? Oh, a different paradox.
What are developers doing when they're not coding? Drinking, eating bacon, and posting on The Lounge, according to my highly scientific study.
It's all coding. All the way down. I might as well post it: http://xkcd.com/303/[^]
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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If the average programmer writes about 50 lines of production code a day. A 50,000 line program would take 1,000 man days to produce. The 50,000 line listing can be entered by a programmer at about 1,000 lines a day or about 50 man days. So what the heck are the developers doing for the other 950 days?
Can you write a program that writes itself? Oh, a different paradox.
What are developers doing when they're not coding? Drinking, eating bacon, and posting on The Lounge, according to my highly scientific study.
Kent Sharkey wrote:
the other 950 days?
writing about 950,000 lines of bugs.
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