Shanti’s Dispatches

These guys didn’t get the memo that more lines of code does not equal more functionality / etc!

It’s the classic thing that manager’s want to optimize (”see, mr CEO, we have X developers craking out Y lines of code, oh how productive they are!”), but is probably off base most of the time.

Those of us in the trenches know that you actually want to minimize the # of lines of code, to a certain extent.

At the same time, you want to avoid trying to win some kind of obfuscation contest by putting everything in cryptic one-liners.

Re: the above link though, it’s clear that PHP is the #1 dominant web scripting language. I doubt RoR will ever eclipse PHP in terms of being a general web scripting language.

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