Comment The LOC/Year measurement is not valid (Score 1) 584
The LOC/Year measurement is not even valid in today's environment. As a programmer, I spend more time fighting with the OS, the tools, debugging, figuring out the intricacies of C++, figuring out how to hookup third party APIs/Components/Libraries, redesign, rewrites, documentation, trying to cleanup and improve the code for maintainability, code reviews, balancing marketing requests vs. what is technically possible, etc... etc... etc...
In other words, American Programmers don't just sit in a cube and hack out code 40 hours a week anymore.
Of course someone way off in another country can create more LOC, when all of the above tasks + dozens more are ignored.
Most projects I know of start with the goal of delivering a quality, maintainable, well-documented product, not just a hacked up product that is impossible to maintain, add features to, and crashes all the time.
The article does hint to the fact that the code delivered from elsewhere is not quality. The article fails to mention how maintainable this code is and if they ever tried to add functionality to the code.
In other words, American Programmers don't just sit in a cube and hack out code 40 hours a week anymore.
Of course someone way off in another country can create more LOC, when all of the above tasks + dozens more are ignored.
Most projects I know of start with the goal of delivering a quality, maintainable, well-documented product, not just a hacked up product that is impossible to maintain, add features to, and crashes all the time.
The article does hint to the fact that the code delivered from elsewhere is not quality. The article fails to mention how maintainable this code is and if they ever tried to add functionality to the code.
