Re: Per the discussions of Software Engineering

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It ain't an oxymoron if it's true. It's possible to write solid
error-free code, but most programmers aren't interested; they have
other agendas.

One of the contracts we currently have is with a Big Name company (hundreds
of milliions in capitalization, many multi-million dollar government
contracts, that sort of thing), and what does this big company want us to
provide them with on a regular basis?

How many "lines of code" we've written.

Given how utterly meaningless such a metric is these days, with GUI builders
and other code "wizards" "writing" thousands of lines of code for you,
better programmers typically using sibstantially fewer lines of code to
accomplish the same task as beginning programmers -- and more readably and
reliably to boot --, etc., it's not even worth pointing this out to come and
debating it. We just comply and accept their payments...

Said big company uses "pair programming" internally, where two folks sit
side by side and co-author/critique/debug code as it's being written. I'd
tend to agree that, yeah, the result probably is reasonably bug-free, but I
think this result comes at the price of rather low productivity -- IMO a
better solution is to just hire better programmers in the first place.


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