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  1. Mar 25th, 2003, 10:20 PM #1
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    How many lines of code per day?

    For all of you that are working as programmers (not doing it in your spare time).

    1. How many lines of code do you produce a day for your company?
    2. How much time do you spend fixing bugs in that code?
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  2. Mar 25th, 2003, 10:48 PM #2
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    I would say 1/2 my time is spent planning the application.

    I probably produce on the average 200 - 300 lines a day....i did have a day last week where I wrote almost 1000 lines.

    My coding time takes into consideration debugging as well.
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    I do like 2-3 lines a day, but I don't work for a company, and spend very little time on debugging, as I just leave that for the next day.
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    When I'm initially writing an app I could be banging out hundreds of lines a day for about a week.

    But then towards the end of the development cycle, I could spend a few hours on just 5 or 10 lines of code trying to debug something...
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    1) 100 per day

    2) the whole of the next day

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    Originally posted by KayJay
    2) the whole of the next day
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    Re: How many lines of code per day?

    Originally posted by hellswraith
    For all of you that are working as programmers (not doing it in your spare time).

    1. How many lines of code do you produce a day for your company?
    2. How much time do you spend fixing bugs in that code?
    Depends on what type of program you are doing... Some things can be repetitive
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  9. Mar 26th, 2003, 09:52 AM #8
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    1) Depends, sometimes 2-3; unless my dealer has come through, then I might do 4... oh wait, that says code, I thought it said coke!
    In that case....no, wait, it's still only 2-3....
    too much time is spend in documentation these days.
    2) The rest of the day after writting those 2-3 lines.
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  11. Mar 26th, 2003, 10:52 AM #9
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    Yeah, depends at what stage of the project and the complexity of t, they'll be days where I can't move forward & they'll be days where I'm 'banging it out' as it were - probably anywhere from about 25 at the end of an app to 700 ish when I know what I'm doing & am cracking on, on average I guess you could probably say around 200-300 mark.

    Debugging, again depends on the size of the program but I guess for every 100 lines, probably 5-10 I'll need to sort on average, mainly stupid typos!

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  12. Mar 26th, 2003, 11:09 AM #10
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    Originally posted by alex_read
    mainly stupid typos!
    The sign of someone who doesn't use option explicit
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    [sarcasm] Option explicit is for cheaters and people looking for the easy way out [/sarcasm]
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    Originally posted by run_GMoney
    [sarcasm] Option explicit is for cheaters and people looking for the easy way out [/sarcasm]
    Personally I program in notepad and compile the application by hand using paper&pen.
    You obviously take the easy way out and let VB compile it for you


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  15. Mar 26th, 2003, 11:34 AM #13
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    Actually I type all my code in binary. My brain can only compute 1's and 0's.
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    Originally posted by run_GMoney
    Actually I type all my code in binary. My brain can only compute 1's and 0's.
    thats a waste of keys and intellect
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    Originally posted by kedaman
    thats a waste of keys and intellect
    At least I'm not a cheater...
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    Originally posted by kedaman
    thats a waste of keys and intellect
    I myself use squirrel
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    writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
    writing haskell makes your life easier:
    reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
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  20. Mar 26th, 2003, 11:49 AM #18
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    I didn't know squirrels knew how to compile code by hand from Notepad into VB.
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  21. Mar 26th, 2003, 11:52 AM #19
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    Originally posted by run_GMoney
    I didn't know squirrels knew how to compile code by hand from Notepad into VB.
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