[fffrad]

If only we could get paid to find solutions, not write lines of code.

I was once asked to create a pie chart of the number of lines of code my team wrote every week. I still haven't figured it out.

[kevin_thibedeau]

> I still haven't figured it out.

Pray you never do. This is the sort of pointless "metric" that is used by clueless management to withold a raise for the "underperforming" programmer who spends his time tracking down critical bugs with minimal code changes rather than producing volumes of new code.

[chris_wot]

Tell them that you would like to show them a pie chart of how many lines of code your team removed. Find a team member who removed 2000 lines of code, then promote them and give them a big payrise. Nickname them "Bill".

[johansch]

Your experience is far off mine :).

Most (all) programmers I socialize with seem to get paid for results, not lines of code.

For some reason though, a few of them build things that are way more complex than they need to be for no better reason (as far as I can tell) that they like doing so.

[vmorgulis]

diff + sloccount?

[scwoodal]

They could figure it out but there's no value so why bother.