>>>Who says Microsoft programmers aren't productive? There we have it, first it was 27 meg, then briefly down to 26, now up to 30.<<<
Who knows what this means? I did some analysis of ms coding figures once and came up with 2 lines of code per day.
700 lines per day is clearly absurd. However, remember that a lot of the drivers and so on come from OEMs supporting their boards and what-not. Also, the core code for Excel, word, etc is now installed on your box in the form of DLLs whether you want it or not, to enable OLE (oops, I meant Active-X!). So what they are calling part of the OS may have been written by the Word team, for all I know.
Then again, this may be lines of machine or assembly, in the actual OS. In a case like that, one line of C++ code could generate 40 lines of machine code, so maybe that's the way to interpret it. 15 lines of C++ a day sound more like it.
Any MS folks out there (ones that code for MS, I mean) want to interpret these figures for us?
Anybody have the relevant comparison for a flavor of Unix?
Chaz |
