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Discussion on: LOC is an important metric to measure developer productivity

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Alex Lohr

That reminds me of a collage who applied at a company that wanted to know how many keystrokes per minute he did on average. He didn't want the job, because rewarding quantity over quality of code is a red flag.

That said, LoC is a valuable metric, but it's even more important to measure the quality (usually in 100% / WTFs per minute).

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Thomas Hansen

That reminds me of a collage who applied at a company that wanted to know how many keystrokes per minute he did on average

Every single ace developer I know would have aced that test, including me. Measuring keystrokes is actually a better idea than asking the candidate to find the pivot value for some QuickSort set ... :D

However, I see your point ...