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Cannot Measure Productivity
It is impossible to measure the effectiveness of tools and techniques in software development because we have no way of measuring our output, and thus our productivity.
But even if you use a consistent counting standard on programs in the same language, all auto-formatted to a single style - lines of code still doesn't measure output properly. Copy and paste programming leads to high LOC counts and poor design because it breeds duplication. But in spite of having to implement 50 remarkably different function points, for which almost no reuse leverage is possible, Joe is an amazing guy, so he did it all in only a year.”
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