The largest application I've written was around 200 KLOC, but that was in 6800-assembler, one instruction per line. My current work application suite consists of around 34K lines of perl code, and is much more complex.

I'd say LOC can be mildly useful as a very approximate measure of the complexity of an application, but that it is very dependent on the language and on an individual programmer's style.

As a measure of productivity I'd rate it completely useless - my most productive days are the ones where I reduce the number of lines, while retaining or improving the functionality.

Hugo

In reply to Re: Source lines of code (SLOC) -- meaningful number? by hv
in thread Source lines of code (SLOC) -- meaningful number? by kaif

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