From: Billy Brown (ewbrownv@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Jul 08 1999 - 16:11:47 MDT
Rob Harris Cen-IT wrote:
> LOC stands for Lines Of Code. Not much of a measure of "quality".
Defects per LOC is the best metric anyone has ever come up with for
measuring the quality of actual program code, which is what we were talking
about. User-percieved quality, as in "I really like this program", is a
completely different thing. You can have excellent code and still turn out
a poor product if your overall program design (and especially user interface
design) are bad. This is what Microsoft tends to do.
On a tangential note, you seem to think that large programs are inherently
bad in some sense. Why? A high-quality program is one that does the things
I want it to do in a simple and cost effective manner. As long as you have
that, who cares if the program is 5 KB or 5 MB? Program size only becomes
important if the software is so big that it actually affects its
performance, or takes up a meaningfull fraction of my hard drive, or in some
other way limits my ability to use it.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
ewbrownv@mindspring.com
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