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Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Fri Jun 16 23:57:39 EDT 2000 
> > Courageous wrote:
> > > Most of your C++ friends would be picking their tongues
> > > up off the floor if they saw the LOC of python programs
> > > in comparison to their C++ counterparts.

> Peter Immarco wrote:
> >What's the LOC acronym  stand for?

Ken Seehof wrote:
>  LOC (lines of code) is also a measure of programmer output.  The idea is
> that you evaluate your programmers by the sheer quantity of code they
> crank out.  The one who cranks out the most lines of code per week is
> clearly the best programmer (yeah right!).  Anyway, it is sometimes used
> as a rough extimate of productivity.

"As a young programmer, I measured productivity in lines of
code written. As an experienced programmer, I learned to
measure productivity in lines of code NOT written."

C/

(who thinks he deserves to have his words carved in marble somewhere)
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