[DUG] Productivity

[John Bird]

To count lines I used the wc command.  Before you say what on earth is that,
it's a DOS/CMD port of a standard Unix command that comes with every Unix
since the year dot along with all sorts of cool tools.  Stands for word
count, counts words, lines and characters and prints a total across all
files scanned.  Goes along with grep, find, sed and all sorts of wonderful
tools you might never have heard of.

 wc -l *.pas

In Unix you would go (from memory)

 wc -l `find . -name *.pas -print`

Or

 find . -name *.pas -print | wc -l

Feeding inputs and outputs of commands to each other, magnificent simple and
elegant design. (In this context a good example of achieving the task with
minimum lines of code - eg 1 line only!) In practice the XP CMD shell does
not do redirection as thoroughly as unix, so it took more than one command
line to get the total.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Stefan Mueller
Sent: Sunday, 30 April 2006 7:05 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: RE: [DUG] Productivity


Pretty much agree with the others that lines of code isn't a good way to
measure your productivity ... but I just couldn't resist and had to check
how many lines of code I actually wrote.

I am getting a linecount of 441'062 in all my own *.pas files.
 
Feels like a lot .. but if you calculate 5 seconds to actually write a line
of code then this turns out to be only a bit over 25 straight days of
non-stop programming(no debugging/testing time included) ... which I guess
is ok - looks like I didn't waste too much of my life on programming after
all ;-) 

Regards,
Stefan 

ps: some simple program to get the count of lines is attached.


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2006 11:59 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: [DUG] Productivity

How do others measure programmers productivity?

In my first year seriously doing Delphi (learning Delphi and programming
around 1/4 of my working days) I have written around 25,000 lines of .PAS
files in about 15 programs - are there any standard measures of
productivity?

John

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