From: "Charles H Sauer (he/him)" <sauer@technologists.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] LOC [was Re: Re: Re.: Princeton's "Unix: An Oral History": who was in the team in "The Attic"?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:33:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0db171e4-7efe-8c00-bb30-a6f914cf9911@technologists.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513e8a46-bd31-420a-bfdf-b59451f89c8d@home.arpa>
On 10/11/2022 3:14 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2022 13:10 -0700, from lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy):
>>> Isn't it relatively well established, though, that IBM culture at
>>> least for a very long time put heavy emphasis on counting lines of
>>> source code, and that more SLOC was considered to be better?
>>
>> That's just stupid.
>
> You're getting no argument from me there.
>
It was likely true that some parts of IBM put heavy emphasis on LOC, but
as Marc points out, that wasn't true in Research. I don't remember heavy
LOC emphasis in AIX groups, and I suspect even in Boca (OS/2) there was
not "heavy" emphasis.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-11 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-11 11:15 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-10-11 13:48 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 13:59 ` Warner Losh
2022-10-11 19:43 ` Marc Donner
2022-10-11 19:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:02 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:08 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-11 21:07 ` Dan Cross
2022-10-11 21:41 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-12 6:59 ` arnold
2022-10-12 7:03 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-12 7:18 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-29 7:31 ` Joseph Holsten
2022-10-11 20:10 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:14 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:33 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him) [this message]
2022-11-07 17:50 ` [TUHS] Re: LOC [was " Warner Losh
2022-11-07 19:57 ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-07 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-08 18:55 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-09 8:41 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-09 8:49 ` arnold
2022-11-09 20:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-09 9:01 ` steve jenkin
2022-11-09 10:55 ` Brad Spencer
2022-11-09 11:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
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