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0 pointsgoatinaboat6y ago0 comments

Bill Gates said something like measuring progress on a program by LOC was like measuring progress on an aircraft by its weight

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mumblemumble6y ago

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

I'm no expert in aircraft, but I'm guessing that in both cases the relationship between progress and the metric in question is logarithmic: The first bits to be put place represent the bulk of the (weight|LOC), but only a relatively small percentage of overall time and effort.

MR4D6y ago

Same metric applies - lighter is better.

;)

mumblemumble6y ago

Hence why the absolute best aircraft are usually made of something like expanded polystyrene.

(At least, that's how it tended to go for the ones I was making as a kid.)

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mumblemumble6y ago

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

MR4D6y ago

Same metric applies - lighter is better.

;)

mumblemumble6y ago

Hence why the absolute best aircraft are usually made of something like expanded polystyrene.

(At least, that's how it tended to go for the ones I was making as a kid.)

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