Lines of code...

[Christian Graus]

I guess the question is one of metrics - lines of code are not really an indicator. For example, if Jim writes a compression algorithm in 20 lines of code and in the same time Bob's algorithm has 200 lines, assuming Bob's isn't better in terms of performance, who did the better job ? Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.

[Lost User]

No idea, couldn't guess. Depends on the project, been on some absolute shit projects where my staying awake was a big win let alone coding. Others I have a mile a minute as I have just clicked with what has to be done and was interested at the same time. Also now I only get to code on my own time, nothing here at work, all development done in the good ol' US of A. Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018 "Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace" - Victor Stone

[Not Active]

The average was 5 lines of working code a day Who said it had to work?:)

[NormDroid]

Tim In the early stages of the project, creating classes, functions stubs, you tend to generate tons of code. As the functions are implemented the code output slacks off, by the end of the project - bug fixes etc. you probably end up with 10-20 lines of code a day.

[ORi x]

Some time ago, I programmed an application for a small company and my employer asked me to use a lot of lines of code because if not, that company would think it didn't worth what they pay for it (we gave them the source code), they just wanted to open the project and see thousands of lines so it's the most commented project I've ever programmed, every line had it's comment ! If ( a == b ) { //this is an if } else { //this is an else } ORi:)

[Le Ridder Noir]

My collegue writes a lot more code than me, so if we were paid for each line should I work like him. >:confused: Some code of him:

BOOL CMyClass::getDirRoot(char* sDirRootPath)
{
BOOL bRet = TRUE;
CString sDirRootPath_tmp = getenv("Root");
CString sMsg = "\nRoot = "+ sDirRootPath_tmp;

#ifdef _DEBUG
acutPrintf(sMsg);
#else
#endif

if (sDirRootPath\_tmp.GetLength () <= 0)
{
	sMsg = "No Root set";
	AfxMessageBox(sMsg,MB\_OK);
	bRet = FALSE;
}

sprintf(sDirRootPath,"%s",sDirRootPath\_tmp);
return bRet;

}

BOOL CMyClass::getDirRoot(CString& sDirRootPath)
{
BOOL bRet = TRUE;
CString sDirRootPath_tmp = getenv("Root");
CString sMsg = "\nRoot = "+ sDirRootPath_tmp;

#ifdef _DEBUG
acutPrintf(sMsg);
#else
#endif

if (sDirRootPath\_tmp.GetLength () <= 0)
{
	sMsg = "No Root set";
	AfxMessageBox(sMsg,MB\_OK);
	bRet = FALSE;
}

sDirRootPath             = sDirRootPath\_tmp;
return bRet;

}

Le Ridder Noir

Considderd to be the worlds fastest knoppenbonker.
one year of working experience with the worlds fastest copie paster(about 2000 lines a minute).
And experience with the one and only NewEra Guru and Crystal Ace.

[Uwe Keim]

You could do it more: Instead of

if ( a == b )
cout << a;

(2 lines) you could do

if
(
a

b
)
{
cout
<<
a
;
}

12 lines. Thats an improvement of 600 percent (let alone the comments that I've forgotten) :-). -- See me: www.magerquark.de Want a job? www.zeta-software.de/jobs

[Anders Molin]

or, to make it really bad...

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a
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b
)
{
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a
;
}

It also makes it nearly impossible to debug :rolleyes: - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

[James Pullicino]

I hope that we're still talking about lines of code here... :-O (2b || !2b)

[Lost User]

OK I have to ask it. what is a knoppenbonker? Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018 "Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace" - Victor Stone

[peterchen]

He was asking for lines of code, not "working lines of code"....

[Tim Smith]

I don't consider 'non-working' lines of code to actually be lines of code. They are lines of garbage. Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.

[Le Ridder Noir]

knoppenbonker == key presser **Le Ridder Noir

Considderd to be the worlds fastest knoppenbonker.
one year of working experience with the worlds fastest copie paster(about 2000 lines a minute).
And experience with the one and only NewEra Guru and Crystal Ace.**

[Steven Mitcham]

When you are writing you're own code it's easy to maintain a high level of productivity. However, in the system I'm working on now, I have to insert code into a working system. Since there are sections of the code that no one has looked at in 6 years, It sometimes takes me three or four days of effort to find a one line bug or insert a 20 line enhancement. That's where the low LOC/day figures come from. In addition I am in a CMM Level 3 shop so all of the documentation and procedure documents take a big cut into that. Along with Design and Code Reviews. 20 LOC/day is an awesome spread for me, it usually only happens when I've got a fairly new section of functionality with minimal impacts to the rest of the codebase. When religion and politics help drive the same cart, they tend to drive faster and faster until it is too late to stop when they see the cliff ahead -- Frank Herbert.

[peterchen]

Oh.. I can't follow this view. Otherwise I'd have too many days where hundred lines of code turn into right garbage under my eyes. ;)

[Tim Smith]

Yup, it has happened to me WAY too many times. Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.

[Todd Smith]

There was a post on /. a while back that stated programmers code an average of about 64 days a year. The rest of the time is spent on design, debugging, and canceled projects.

[Lost User]

I just used the line counting addin to find the number of lines in the project I am working on now. It has 20 VC++ projects and the counted lines of code is 228,000. I am working on this for the past 9 months. The count also includes the VC++ auto-generated code :).