This article claims that Lisp and SmallTalk developers are 10x more productive than developers using mainstream languages, but only in small teams. In other words, these languages don't scale. http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html …
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I was thinking about the quotes: "We should rather be counting lines of code produced, as lines of code *spent*." "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." and "Source code is not an asset, it's a liability."
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It makes sense to measure the total codebase size to estimate its complexity, but measuring kloc *written per week* is insane, imo. The goal is more like, find programmers good enough to *reduce* your overall kloc count.
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