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Xjet........there you are totally wrong. |
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Nope, I'm 100% right!
I've been in the software industry for over 30 years and I often hear *programmers* say "I can write faster than that" -- until you sit down with them and show them how very few lines they actually write per day when amortized across the entire development cycle.
We're not talking about sitting down in the morning and delivering 500 lines of code by lunchtime - anyone can do that - but it's *not* the whole story.
Once you include the initial program specification, systems analysis, structuring, coding, testing, debugging, etc, 5-7 LOC per hour is a *very* reasonable figure.
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I myself have written tons of code for products since I started in computers years and years ago. Maybe not quite a million but it is up there. |
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Yes, but you're not including the hours you spent doing the SA, testing, debugging, documenting etc are you? You're thinking "I sat down on Monday and by the end of the day I'd written x00 lines of code -- but was that code totally bug-free, did you include all the prelimary work? Was it properly documented?
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a million lines of code is not that big a deal actually and wouldn't take a lifetime to create. Video games are twice that. Keep the thread on topic please and keep your dislike of JD out of this. |
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It's nothing to do with my "dislike of JD" it all refers to the man's credibility and therefore the veracity of his claims in respect to the XPS system -- something which I think even you will agree *IS* important.
You are right, many programmers (including me) have cut, tested, debugged and documented a million lines of code throughout their career -- bug JD is claiming millionS of lines -- that's more than a million.
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Remember XPS is not just JD but Scott as well. JD just happens to be the spokesperson online |
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But JD claimed he'd *personally* cut "millions of lines of code".
What it boils down to is that JD continues to spout BS and that's got to be a worry for anyone considering XPS as a product.
A sound product doesn't need BS to sell it. Just as a good programmer doesn't need to boast about unrealistic productivity or degrees they don't actually have.
It's very seldom that you get top-quality lubricants made from snake-oil.