I work in air traffic control computers processing and displaying radar data to controllers. (Once upon a time I was a frontline controller talking to airplanes).
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Sacramento, CA
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Support Specialist at Federal Aviation Adminstration
In some circumstances you have the producers of the code and a separate entity as a fixer.
I spent a large portion of my career on a fixer crew and you're right that line count or any other metric is pretty useless. The less they heard from us, the better everyone was doing.
All that said, I suspect some guys just produce code and there are several metrics for them. But, even for them, line count isn't a helpful metric. If you measure folks by line count, you'll end up with bloated code.
I think as Austin points out though, this is a self-review, and could be useful as a self-metric. Always remembering that short, concise code will usually compile and run more efficiently.
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In some circumstances you have the producers of the code and a separate entity as a fixer.
I spent a large portion of my career on a fixer crew and you're right that line count or any other metric is pretty useless. The less they heard from us, the better everyone was doing.
All that said, I suspect some guys just produce code and there are several metrics for them. But, even for them, line count isn't a helpful metric. If you measure folks by line count, you'll end up with bloated code.
I think as Austin points out though, this is a self-review, and could be useful as a self-metric. Always remembering that short, concise code will usually compile and run more efficiently.