> Many years ago I worked for a large Japanese Multinational
> and my manager, who was (is) very respected there actually
> told us once "a good programmer is known by the quantity of
> code he generates."
> They had all kinds of source code line-counts and even put up
> graphs showing which programmer is "best" at any given time.
> It got so ridiculous that when talk of bonuses tied to these
> metrics started floating, we all were in a race to see who
> could generate the most bloated code. None of us hid this
> fact from the manager, we laughed about it thinking finally
> they would see how silly this metric was. Nope. He loved it
> and reported back to Tokyo that we were really getting into
> the company policies.
>
> Needless to say, no decent programmers stayed there long.
If a good programmer is known by the quantity of generated code, a great
programmer writes code generators!
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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