Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code
-2000 Lines Of Code
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
Date:
February 1982
Characters:
Bill Atkinson
Topics:
Software Design, Management, Lisa
Summary:
It's hard to measure progress by lines of code
In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that they wrote from week to week. They ...
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