[DUG] Productivity

[Karl at Work]

>> Hmmm... every time I rewrite a module, it ends up doing the same job
>> (albeit in a much more correct and functional way) with code usually
>> somewhere between one half and one third its original size, sometimes
>> less.  I've expunged very many thousands of lines of crap code, maybe
>> even more than I've written!
>> 
>> Does this mean my productivity is negative?
>
> Yes 

It's official then. :-)

> Why re-write something that works? You learn not the Microsoft Lesson!
> :-)

Yeah, I'm a slow learner.  I hung around when the other 20 programmers
left... not that it was their decision, of course. ;-)

(It's only a slight exaggeration to say that their code "worked"...)

> PS why is your email address Karl and you sign your email Carl?

Split personality disorder. ;-)

Cheers,
Karl
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